At an Oculus Mobile update event in San Francisco, California, Max Cohen, Head of Mobile at Oculus, confirmed that its smartphone-based device, made in partnership with Samsung, saw one million users last month... Note that Oculus was still vague on specifics; this doesn’t mean that a million Gear VRs have been sold, it likely means that a million phones used one in April, or something along those lines. There are plenty of ways this number could be boosted, the most obvious being that there’s no limit to how many phones can be used with one unit. It’s very possible that one Gear VR could be assigned to multiple phones within a household, for example.
My guess is actual sales of Gear VR (which I like quite a bit) are roughly half a million:
Compatible with the Samsung Galaxy 6 (with an install base of about 50 million) and the Galaxy 7 (about 10 million), there's a lot of people out there likely begging their friend with the Gear VR asking to borrow it. Even assuming closer to 1 million unit sales, that means of all the consumers who could buy a Gear VR compatible with their Galaxy, 59 million have not.
(Not to be a gratuitous dick or anything, especially when Gear VR is genuinely cool -- just pushing back on Upload VR's excitement that one million users is "a hugely impressive number".)
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