VR headsets are absent, and AR glasses are in. Research From the analysis of the firm Counterpoint shows that global VR transmissions have fallen until 2024 despite the proliferation of cheap headsets such as the Meta Quest 3s. Worse, VR sales numbers may not improve anytime soon. The next step for these companies is glasses – with or without enlarged reality capabilities. Big tech now has to convince buyers of thin AI -filled glass -filled glass is better than transferring a heavy piece of plastic to their noggins.
The number of VR headsets sent worldwide fell 12% year-on-year. Headset shipping fell a whole 5% in the last quarter of 2024. That was across the grandmother of Virtual Reality Hype Bubble, Meta, which promotes $ 300 Meta quest 3s. The cheap but capable headset gave the Mark Zucker -led Mark company a larger VR market sharing than the previous quarters, which consumes more cuts of a growing pie. Sony has managed to handle its bare 9% shares in the market, likely because of this PlayStation VR2who got help from it Integration with PCVR Late last year, with standard holiday discounts.
The brightness goes to the VR headset, and it's not just the most reachable. The Apple Vision Pro is the same In denial In the last months of 2024. Counterpoint said the shipment of Apple's first “spatial computer” fell 43% in the quarter of 2024. The company had little strengthening sale when its headset was obtained in several selected global markets in the mid -year, but it did not help to share its market after just 2%.
The firm argued that the VR market will not get many places in the next two years. That is due to a lack of content and the usual complaint about discomfort from Sshoving a screen in front of your eyes for the end hours. These complaints are not new. They have been there a lot, even more when Meta returns to promote the shared VR world called “The Metaverse.” Now that many years ago of the hype cycle, meta and zuckerberg had a glass in mind. Meta Ray-Ban's unexpected success is the company that reduces to continue with more wearing products. The company also sees these glasses as a vehicle for your trained AI-based AI models that means you will offer a personal assistant straight from your face.
Counterpoint claimed that the AR Glasses Market will grow by 30% to 2026. The Ray-Ban meta glasses have proven like a huge hit today the meta Release the “half dozen” new glass of AR Models in 2025. Zuckerberg told investors earlier this year he thinks the company can sell “billions -billion” of AI-enabled AR glasses to completely corner the market as it did in VR. Apple is more than just the long -term Smart Spectacles project, though it May have something to show Over the next few years, according to the latest rumors.
And yet, more tech players enter the VR/AR headset game. Samsung and Google make up Project Moohan, an AR headset that seems closely and-If you look at its rumored specs-The high price at $ 3,500 vision pro.
I used the ray-ban metaand I do not admire others. They are good for shooting photos without hand and video (even without control for focus or zooming makes them less). As for many AI connections, I still have to find a use for a chatbot that regularly fails to identify things around it correctly.
Beyond the smart sunglasses, the next step for lighter, featured packed devices that can be worn has enlarged visuals such as a head-up display scroll in front of your eyes. CES 2025 is flooded In these types of devices, some of them have integrated AI chatbots and screens with blazing green text. I put in a lot, and all of them still don't feel like the products available. They lack a solid case of use without the abilities beyond a typical smartphone.
Probably Google, Meta, Apple, or any number of smaller companies can show in 2025 with something both lightweight and strong. The closest we have seen with that promise to this day Orion's Metaa pair of real AR glasses. And yet, the issue with those who are capable of wearing AR-you have the ability to stick to a strong computer in an incredibly small package. The Pet Ar Spectacles project of the meta requires an additional data puck to work. This is an issue that has been reported Apple's plans were killed for tethered arm glasses. We can avoid the discomfort of the headsets in 2025, but we can instead smell us a mess of wires running from our faces to our pockets or have chatbots that talk to us through our glasses.
