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We’re coming up on one year since the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive were released, and whether you’re a diehard fan or an ongoing skeptic there seems to be one important question everyone wants answered: How are sales? And, maybe even more important, “Who’s winning?” After all, everyone loves a meaningless battle between two corporations.
Oculus has been tight-lipped about sales figures though, and HTC hasn’t been much better—only confirming in November that sales were “much higher” than 140,000.
And so we turn to Epic founder Tim Sweeney, who held a lengthy interview with Glixel this week. He doesn’t give hard numbers, but does say that PC-oriented VR (a.k.a. not PlayStation VR or mobile solutions like GearVR) has sold around half a million headsets.
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