{"id":1013076,"date":"2021-08-13T10:52:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T14:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uploadvr.com\/?p=157143"},"modified":"2021-08-13T10:52:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T14:52:50","slug":"facebooks-bosworth-convinced-oculus-will-reach-10-million-users-earlier-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/plato-data\/facebooks-bosworth-convinced-oculus-will-reach-10-million-users-earlier-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s Bosworth \u2018Convinced\u2019 Oculus Will Reach 10 Million Users Earlier Than Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1016567-4521551.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/facebooks-bosworth-convinced-oculus-will-reach-10-million-users-earlier-than-expected.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>In his latest ask me anything (AMA) on Instagram, Vice President of Facebook Reality Labs Andrew Bosworth said he\u2019s \u201cconvinced\u201d that Facebook will reach its goal of 10 million VR users sooner than initially anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2019 at Oculus Connect, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that <a href=\"https:\/\/uploadvr.com\/oculus-connect-6-mark-zuckerberg\/\">VR platforms would need to reach a threshold of around 10 million users<\/a> in order to be a sustainable and profitable ecosystem for developers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we get to, and cross, this threshold [of 10 million users], we think the content and the ecosystem will just explode,\u201d Zuckerberg said in the OC5 keynote speech. He then went on to announce the original Oculus Quest headset, which marked a huge shift in Facebook\u2019s VR strategy, moving away from wired PC VR experiences and focusing predominantly on the new standalone Quest platform.<\/p>\n<p>With the success of the original Quest and the seemingly even greater success of Quest 2, Bosworth is almost certain that the all-important 10 million threshold will be met earlier than the company expected. Here\u2019s a transcription of his response and full answer:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>When will Oculus have 10 million users?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Bosworth:<\/strong> You know, I\u2019m not going to answer this question, because I don\u2019t know the answer to it, but we are doing really well. When we set that goal and talked about it at Connect, we had a timeframe in mind that it would happen on, and I\u2019m very convinced it\u2019s going to happen earlier than we had initially expected.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in January, Zuckerberg said that Quest 2 was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/uploadvr.com\/mark-zuckerberg-quest-2-mainstream\/\">on track to be the first mainstream virtual reality headset<\/a>.\u201d While he didn\u2019t give any concrete sales numbers, a more <a href=\"https:\/\/uploadvr.com\/oculus-quest-2-facial-interfaces-four-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent recall listing revealed<\/a> that 4 million Quest 2 facial interfaces (included with both the Quest 2 headset and the Fit Pack accessory kit) were shipped in the US. Although it\u2019s still not a direct sales unit, the 4 million number does give us a rough ballpark of how many Quest 2s have shipped in the US.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ai-code-block ai-code-block-15\">\n<!--\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/tag\/js\/gpt.js\"><\/script>\n<script> window.googletag = window.googletag || {cmd: []}; googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.defineSlot('\/50209762\/inarticle', [[250, 250], [300, 75], [336, 280], [300, 250], [320, 50], [468, 60], [300, 100], [300, 50]], 'div-gpt-ad-1615562896383-0').addService(googletag.pubads()); googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest(); googletag.enableServices(); });\n<\/script> <!-- \/50209762\/inarticle \n\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1615562896383-0'> <script> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1615562896383-0'); }); <\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n--> <\/div>\n<p>Combined with sales of the original Quest headset, you can start to put together a picture of how Facebook might be heading towards 10 million users on the Quest platform sooner than it anticipated.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/uploadvr.com\/facebook-bosworth-10-million-users\/\">Source: https:\/\/uploadvr.com\/facebook-bosworth-10-million-users\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1013077,"template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","type":"","auto_type":false,"post":"","stream":"","stream_url":"","waveform_data":[],"duration":0,"start":0,"end":0,"bpm":0,"downloadable":false,"download_url":"","purchase_title":"","purchase_url":"","post-count-all":0,"like_count":0,"download_count":0,"editor_note":"","copyright":"","captions":[],"sources":[]},"genre":[10309],"station_tag":[3785,4241,44161,6515,3718,3764,3830,6978,3896,6988,4379,453,45489,3772,4899,4178,44139,3694,3650,3651,4275,3653,43744,4619,3703,3912,3958,3657,24364,3741,4748,11191,15872,3662,5031,476,3861,3862,3969,6167,4546,3776,4788,3976,477,3714,3928,3929,3670,6986,3984,3755,4238,3933,4550,4551,18589],"artist":[11195],"mood":[],"activity":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station\/1013076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/station"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=1013076"},{"taxonomy":"station_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station_tag?post=1013076"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=1013076"},{"taxonomy":"mood","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mood?post=1013076"},{"taxonomy":"activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity?post=1013076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}