{"id":108277,"date":"2016-10-17T09:16:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T07:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=108277"},"modified":"2016-10-17T09:17:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T07:17:28","slug":"analysts-reveal-which-vr-headset-will-dominate-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/108277-analysts-reveal-which-vr-headset-will-dominate-the-market","title":{"rendered":"Analysts reveal which VR headset will dominate the market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist has <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/graphicdetail\/2016\/10\/daily-chart-8\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> <\/strong>a\u00a0chart\u00a0predicting\u00a0which VR headset will dominate the market by the end of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, Samsung Gear VR tops the list with 30% followed closely Google Cardboard and newcomer PS VR.<\/p>\n<p>The analysts reveal PS VR may be in a sweet spot however, with a product more powerful than the mass-market devices and more affordable than the top-tier ones.<\/p>\n<p>It can also rely on a captive global customer base of over 40 million PlayStation 4 users, forecast to surpass 50 million by Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of who wins, it&#8217;s clear that VR will be big money.<\/p>\n<p>As early as 2020, spending is forecast to reach $7.9 billion on VR headsets and $3.3 billion on VR entertainment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/VR-graph.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-108279\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/VR-graph.png\" alt=\"vr-graph\" width=\"1190\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/VR-graph.png 1190w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/VR-graph-768x456.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1190px) 100vw, 1190px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Now read: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/107547-i-tested-the-oculus-rift-htc-vive-and-ps-vr-the-winner-was-clear.html\" target=\"_blank\">I tested the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PS VR \u2013 the winner was clear<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which VR headset is the one to own?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":108281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585,2226,11681],"tags":[31,7345,13746,16735,17630,6477],"class_list":["post-108277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-mobile","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-gear","tag-oculus","tag-ps-vr","tag-vive","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108285,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108277\/revisions\/108285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}