By Darren Allan
The inventor of the Oculus Rift has responded angrily to a number of recent reports based on a Steam survey which declared that sales of the VR headset (and rival HTC Vive) were tanking.
The Steam stats in question (hardware survey for August) showed that only 0.18% of the denizens of Valve’s gaming service use an HTC Vive, and only 0.10% have an Oculus Rift.
What’s more, the Rift user base only increased by 0.01% last month compared to 0.03% growth in July, and there was no increase for the Vive in August compared to 0.03% growth the previous month.
Hence there was a fair old rash of stories declaring that these VR headsets are nose-diving, and Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey didn’t respond kindly to such pieces.
Luckey tweeted: “So much clickbait about Rift/VR sales ‘flatlining’ or ‘crashing’ based on the Steam user hardware survey. Not how the data works, guys.”
He then added: “It makes for a snappy headline and ample concern trolling from journos, but the only thing it indicates is exactly what it measures: The fraction of Steam users who use their headset with Steam, opt to take the survey, and have their VR headset connected when they …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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