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Steam Hardware Survey - February 2024 results included

RuneSR2
Grand Champion

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Latest results:

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These results are compared, at least for the Rift, to August when Rift peaked at 0.35 %. Since August 2018 Rift has decreased about 6 % (from 0.35 to 0.33). Vive also decreased.  

Compared to other HMDs we see from April to September (note that this image hasn't been updated to October yet):

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When updated to October I'd expect:

Rift = 45 %
Vive = 42 %
WMR = 8 %
Vive Pro = 3 %
Rift DK2 = 1 %

Source: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

BTW - some history:

April 2018:

Oculus Rift 0.20%
HTC Vive 0.18%
Windows Mixed Reality 0.01%
Oculus Rift DK2 0.01%
Oculus Rift DK1 0.00%
Unknown 0.00%


July 2018:

Oculus Rift 0.32%
HTC Vive 0.31%
Windows Mixed Reality 0.05%
HTC Vive Pro 0.01%
Oculus Rift DK2 0.01%
Oculus Rift DK1 0.00%

I guess it's more or less a stand still since July for Rift and the original Vive... I don't think the Odyssey+ has had any impact on the WMR results above, the Odyssey+ is much too new - if it'll have any impact, it won't be before the Steam Hardware Survey November 2018 results. 
 
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RuneSR2
Grand Champion


I’d go with the advice of stay at home if self isolating, for those who aren’t, social distancing is the thing which doesn’t exclude going outside... 1.5m separation, no cafes or bars etc

Even sitting in the garden is good enough for me after a few hours in the house



Just got this - from a Danish Hospital - don't think young people with no comorbidities are in trouble - but we risk infecting old people with comorbidities:

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So stay home - and plug in the HMD  o:)

Pretty sure I don't want to be anywhere but City17 next week lol

Even the Terminator stays home  😉

https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1240418674491543552

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"Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"

OmegaM4N
Expert Trustee



OmegaM4N said:

^^^Might be publicly used business hmds that are now being burned in a huge fire pit as no one will now use them. Lol



Was at the ConExpo 2020 (Construction Expo) in Vegas just last week - everybody using a HMD was using either a CV1 or Rift S (apart from one who had an OG Vive).  Nobody mentioned worrying about the virus at that time to be honest, although they were mainly "proper blokes" who drove diggers and cranes for a living    ::smile:


Sit in a railway bothy at lunch time and listen to a proper bloke with fingers and toes missing, who is in the bothy toilet trying to drop a HTC Cosmos through his bleeding piles......you will then know what a true proper bloke is. Lol
CV1/Vive-knuckles)/Dell Vr Visor/Go/Quest II/ PSVR.

There's staying at home on your 5 acre estate with swimming pool and hot tub then there's staying at home in your Peckham flat.





Big PC, all the headsets, now using Quest 3

Be sensible about things though, going outside isn't a problem if you're staying away from other people... if you're not touching things other people touch. Dogs should still be walked, groceries should still be bought (washing your hands afterwards). For example, ordering deliveries of food is a bad thing to do if you're taking those delivery resources away from people who are self isolating and you're just social distancing, everything has consequences.

Walking outside really isn't the problem unless you can't stop yourself from bumbing into people. But if it helps explain my balance of risk... I cut my own hair yesterday rather than go to the barbour and if you could see the reults, you'd appreciate how seriously I'm taking this! 

Anyway, we're probably getting off subject! Just to go back to the Steam survey.... I think maybe a more probable cause for the small decline is that there's always going to be a drift away from any new toy after a while (for some people). If the tech is good, more people start playing with it than stop, but if the new supply of headsets dries up, you're just left with that small negative drift.

Well like I say, a possible cause!

RuneSR2
Grand Champion
Btw, it's my impression that far too few have tried Stormland, and of course graphics like used in Stormland don't come cheap. I don't recall any game pushing more polys than Stormland. I'm not joking when saying that to me a walk in Stormland feels extremely refreshing and revitalizing (in the quiet locations without enemies) - maybe even more than talking a walk in the real world - the pics below aren't some paintings made to make Stormland look better than it is - this really is Stormland:

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Of course this isn't SteamVR - but you can Revive Stormland using non-Oculus hmds (preferably if you have a 2080 Ti, cough ;))

If there ever was a time to stay home and use your HMD, now is the time!

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RuneSR2 said:

if you have a 2080 Ti, cough

everyone takes a virtual 2 metres step back

RattyUK
Trustee



RuneSR2 said:

if you have a 2080 Ti, cough

everyone takes a virtual 2 metres step back


This thread is now in self-isolation...  B)
I picked up Boneworks again, now that it has a save feature (I couldn't get past one of the bits in the very early game) and have spent a few happy, puzzling, hours in-game the last couple of days...  All in preparation for Alys, of course 🙂
Steam nowadays seems better on the Rift S than previously, all good 🙂

PC info: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - Sapphire 7900XTX - 32GB DDR4 4000 - 3 NVMe + 3SATA SSD - Quest 2 & 3

Nekto2
Superstar

RuneSR2 said:

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January 2020 = 1.31%
February 2020 = 0.97 %

It's kinda worse than going 6 months back, it does not make sense to me. Now, a few weeks ago I did read somewhere that some users with Rift connected experienced that Steam didn't register the CV1 in the survey. That could explain the massive CV1 reduction, but still some CV1s did get counted. Not sure corona can be blamed for the massive reduction from 1.31% to 0.97% (about 35% reduction). I guess we should take the current results with a grain of salt...



More people had Steam installed and they are not vr gamers? They have more time to play games but have no hmd.
Those are %, not an absolute numbers. So there could be more vr headsets.

Let's see % of CV1/S after HL launch 😉 Those without Steam could install it.

kevinw729
Honored Visionary
It will be crazy to see the February / April figures - will be the clearest idea of what the shape of the consumer VR scene is as "those that have it have been using it" in the current climate. Will be a once in a lifetime snapshot of the Steam platform at full stretch. The servers for Steam and PornHub must glow in the dark!
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

kojack
MVP
MVP

Nekto2 said:


RuneSR2 said:

...
January 2020 = 1.31%
February 2020 = 0.97 %

It's kinda worse than going 6 months back, it does not make sense to me. Now, a few weeks ago I did read somewhere that some users with Rift connected experienced that Steam didn't register the CV1 in the survey. That could explain the massive CV1 reduction, but still some CV1s did get counted. Not sure corona can be blamed for the massive reduction from 1.31% to 0.97% (about 35% reduction). I guess we should take the current results with a grain of salt...



More people had Steam installed and they are not vr gamers? They have more time to play games but have no hmd.
Those are %, not an absolute numbers. So there could be more vr headsets.

Let's see % of CV1/S after HL launch 😉 Those without Steam could install it.


Yep, plus unlike the Oculus hardware surveys, the Steam survey is only given to a random selection of people, not everybody. I've read that it may be weighted to be more likely to select people with recent hardware changes.

If Steam hasn't explicitly asked you to take part in the survey, your headset hasn't been counted.



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