According to Roy Taylor, corporate vice president of Alliances for AMD, Â there will be 30 million virtual reality headsets in use in North America and Europe by 2018.
He was citing figures that resulted from the inaugural meeting of the VR Council, an industry group with 70 members.
Half of all those headsets, or 15 million, will be running on mobile devices. Another 10 million will be console-based, like Sony’s Project Morpheus. And 5 million will be PC peripherals like the Oculus Rift.
He gave the keynote address at the VRLA Summer Expo a week ago.
Watch the entire presentation below.
Hypergrid Business editor and publisher Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist. During the day, Maria Korolov is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. Email her at [email protected]. Her first virtual world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller list in its category. Her second novella, The Lost King of Krim, is out now. She is also the publisher of MetaStellar, a new online magazine of speculative fiction.
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