Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/01/06
By: Esme Jiang and Frances Huang

Taipei, Jan. 6 (CNA) Japan’s Sony Corp., California-based Oculus VR and Taiwan’s smartphone vendor HTC Corp. (宏達電) are expected to continue to dominate the global virtual reality headset market in 2017, the Topology Research Institute (拓墣產業研究院) said Friday.

In a research report, Topology, a research division of Taipei-based market advisory firm TrendForce Corp. (集邦), said that Sony’s PlayStation VR is expected to rank as the best selling VR headset in the world this year on hopes that the Japanese firm will ship 2.5 million units of its PS VR in 2017, up from an estimated 1.5 million units in 2016.

Coming in second, Oculus VR is expected to sell a total of 1.2 million units of the Oculus Rift headset in 2017, up from 650,000 units expected for 2016, while the next biggest player HTC could ship 600,000 units of the HTC Vive this year, up from 460,000 units forecast for last year.

Other VR headset vendors are forecast to ship a combined 800,000 units of their devices in 2017, up from 300,000 units estimated for 2016.    [FULL  STORY]