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Survey Suggests 15% of Gamers Intend To Purchase A VR Headset

Only 15 percent of gamers polled as part of a recent survey are definitively intending to purchase a high-end VR headset.

This survey was conducted by Gamer Network and was sent to 14,000 individual game enthusiasts across a myriad of the company’s different websites. Gamer Network is comprised of 13 different websites including Eurogamer, USGamer,GameIndustry.biz, and Rock Paper Shotgun. Eurogamer specifically is one of the internet’s largest gaming publicaptions, and GameIndustry.biz is arguably the top source for business focused game news.13,000 gamers responded to the survey according to an article publishing the survey’s results onGameIndustry.

According to the survey, 15 percent of gamers are intending to purchase a VR headset this year, 60 percent said they would not consider purchasing this year, and 25 percent were unsure if they would purchase or not. 75 percent of the survey’s respondents indicated that they already own a gaming PC and 32 percent cited prices as their primary reason for abstaining from a VR purchase this year.

A fair amount of virtual reality (VR) news and reveals have been the result of the Samsung Unpacked 2016 event tonight in Barcelona, but it wasn’t only the product announcements that took viewers both live and online by surprise. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage and shared the successes that Samsung Gear VR has experienced today, including some new statistics.

Zuckerberg first talked about how “VR is the next platform where anyone can create or experience what they want”, using capturing his daughter’s first steps as an example. But the real eye opener was when he went on to talk about how much users have already utilised Gear VR for video, sharing new stats that “more than one million hours of video have already been watched in Gear VR. So we’ve only just started to explore what’s possible with video in VR”.

On Facebook alone, Zuckerberg explains that “already over a million people are watching 360 video on Facebook, more than 20,000 of them have been uploaded, and hundreds of new ones are added every day”. Despite those staggering statistics, Zuckerberg went on to say that it was “still really early for 360 videos”.

The social media guru made sure it was known that Facebook has plans for making 360 video a staple feature, and also put great weight on the importance of integration amongst different companies to make sure 360 video, especially in Gear VR, can sustain, saying: “Gear VR is by far the best mobile experience and that’s because it combines the best hardware from Samsung with the best VR software from Facebook with Oculus.”

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McDonald’s is Testing Cardboard VR Viewers in Happy Meals

Happy Goggles debut in Sweden for trial run.

In the recent months we have seen the New York Times include a Google Cardboard VR viewer with newspaper deliveries and watched The Sports Illustrated package a cardboard viewer in their coveted Swimsuit issue. Now McDonald’s is giving us a taste of their own version of a Cardboard VR viewer that is definitely more kid-friendly and happens to be recycled from the iconic Happy Meal.

McDonald’s Sweden is launching a promotion that invites kids to turn Happy Meal boxes into a Cardboard VR viewer.

The promotion is called Happy Goggles and will include the distribution of 3,500 specially designed Happy Meal boxes to 14 restaurants over the weekends of March 5 and March 12.