Bigscreen Past and Varjo Aero now present on the Steam {Hardware} Survey, giving a sign of their possession and utilization.
Each headsets truly began displaying up in an replace to the January information Valve made a couple of days after publishing it. February is the primary month they seem from the beginning.
The Steam {Hardware} & Software program Survey is obtainable to a random pattern of Steam’s consumer base every month. If you happen to settle for, it uploads a listing of your PC specs and peripherals to Valve, in addition to any headset used on SteamVR prior to now month.
The information for February exhibits no vital swings within the relative headset utilization share. Meta Quest 3 had been quickly surging because it launched in October, however this progress has now considerably slowed down, with the headset remaining on the #3 spot, slightly below the Valve Index. 14.5% of SteamVR customers in February used Quest 3, whereas 15.8% used Valve Index.
Quest 2 nonetheless holds the highest spot, because it has since shortly after it launched greater than three years in the past, with 39.18%, extra utilization than Quest 3 and Index mixed.
Bigscreen Past was utilized by simply 0.15% and Varjo Aero by 0.14%. These headsets stay extremely area of interest in comparison with extra the favored headsets from Valve and Meta. Each headsets provide considerably larger decision than Index, however value considerably extra and nonetheless require SteamVR Monitoring base stations.
In January Varjo confirmed that Aero is now not being produced after greater than two years available on the market, and new inventory is now unavailable. In the meantime, Bigscreen’s CEO not too long ago declared the corporate has reached constructive money stream with Past.
The share of Steam customers utilizing any VR headset in any respect decreased barely, from 2.24% in January to 1.97% in February. Adjusting for China, the place most VR headsets aren’t bought and most VR video games aren’t obtainable, the autumn was a lot smaller. January noticed the best utilization in nearly two years, which doubtless mirrored many customers making an attempt out praydog’s UEVR mod, a free software launched initially of January that injects VR assist into nearly any fashionable PC recreation made with Unreal Engine. Clearly this degree of assist is not sufficient to maintain everybody coming again although, and PC VR’s long-term progress stays extraordinarily sluggish.
