Quest 3 & Quest 3S made up 28% of SteamVR utilization in January, after seeing vital development in current months.
What Is The Steam {Hardware} Survey?
The Steam {Hardware} & Software program Survey is obtainable to a random pattern of Steam’s person 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 comes from the Steam {Hardware} & Software program Survey, and exhibits Meta’s present era headset household nearing the utilization of Quest 2, which made up just below 32% on SteamVR in January.
Whereas Quest 3S makes use of the identical show and lenses as Quest 2, for PC VR it has help for the 6 GHz band of Wi-Fi 6E, and its decoder can deal with the AV1 codec in addition to greater bitrates for H264 and HEVC. Quest 3 has these enhancements too, in fact, however goes far additional with its exactly adjustable sharp pancake lenses and better decision panels.
We’re grouping Quest 3 and Quest 3S as a “household” in our evaluation for a quite simple cause: SteamVR sees Quest 3S headsets as ‘Quest 3’ when utilizing Meta’s official Quest Hyperlink characteristic, and Digital Desktop’s developer Man Godin confirmed to UploadVR that Quest 3S headsets utilizing his device report back to SteamVR as ‘Quest 3’ too.
Which means that the 4.85% determine for Quest 3S in Valve’s knowledge solely represents these utilizing its Steam Hyperlink app for Quest, and the 23.26% for Quest 3 contains Quest 3S from Quest Hyperlink and Digital Desktop. Thus, all we will precisely say is that Quest 3 and 3S collectively make up 28.11%.
Collectively, Meta’s Quest and Rift headsets make up just below 70% of SteamVR utilization, with Valve remaining in distant second with simply 13.2% share from Index.
The Valve Index is now nearly six years outdated, and has very low decision by in the present day’s requirements. Over the previous 12 months its utilization has steadily declined as new headsets like Quest 3 and Bigscreen Past entice house owners to improve. Valve has been engaged on a brand new headset for years now, although, and its controllers leaked in November, suggesting this would possibly simply be the 12 months it lastly launches.
