Meta’s Reality Labs VR division has but to reveal what number of Quest 2 headsets it has bought to this point. What we do know is that it just lately grew to become extra well-liked than ever. On Christmas Day 2021, the Oculus app hit the highest of Apple’s App Store charts for the primary time. The software program achieved that milestone due to everybody who purchased a Quest 2 headset to reward to their pals and family members.
In one other extra amusing signal of simply how well-liked VR headsets have gotten, insurer Aviva stated final 12 months it noticed a 31 % enhance in house contents claims involving VR headsets and a 68 % total enhance since 2016. In 2021, the common declare for VR-related unintended damages was about £650 or $880, and most incidents concerned cracked TVs screens.
“As new games and gadgets become popular, we often see this playing through in the claims made by our customers,” Kelly Whittington, Aviva’s UK property claims director, advised The Guardian. “In the past, we’ve seen similar trends involving consoles with handsets, fitness games and even the likes of rogue fidget spinners.”
Less than a month and a half into 2022, Aviva has already needed to course of plenty of VR-related claims and the corporate expects extra to come back in all year long. That nonetheless doesn’t inform us what number of VR headsets are on the market. As far because the Quest 2 is worried, the closest we’ve to a strong quantity is a third-party estimate Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon shared in November 2021. At the time, he stated Meta had shipped roughly 10 million models of its newest VR headset.