VR hardware sales are about to skyrocket
Shipments of virtual reality hardware will begin to "skyrocket" this year and keep climbing through 2020, market analyst IDC said.
An estimated 9.6 million VR devices will ship in 2016, IDC predicts. That's up from about 350,000 units, mostly developer kits, shipped in 2015.
It's not a shock that VR systems will see huge growth this year, after several VR devices, including the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive, and the Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition VR headset, all debuted in recent weeks.
But those shipments will continue to balloon through 2020, when IDC expects 64.8 million units to be sold. That's a compound annual growth rate of 183.8 percent, or almost a tripling each year.
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