While Oculus VR and HTC are reluctant to disclose information about the number of sold virtual reality helmets, colleagues from the site Road to VR try to generate statistics on the basis of circumstantial evidence. For example, SteamSpy service allows us to estimate how many people are playing in applications distributed with each helmet sold HTC Vive. If the game based on the Job Simulator, the number of users will vary from 70 to 85 thousand.
Some of the users have on their hands pre-production version of HTC Vive. From August 2012 to October 2015 Oculus VR managed to sell about 175 thousand helmet Oculus Rift, intended for developers. The average consumer has sold less serial helmet Oculus Rift. In addition, Steam does not allow statistics to judge their exact number because not all owners of helmets used this ecosystem. However, those found about 36 thousand people.
In the case of HTC Vive is possible to estimate the approximate amount of revenue from the sale of virtual reality helmets - it exceeds $ 56 million, according to conservative estimates..