There’s no getting around the fact that 2017 was a big letdown for the virtual reality industry. But at the tail end of a year that saw far fewer sales of VR headsets than projected, the holiday season is set to offer a bit of good cheer.
The folks at SuperData recently updated their holiday projections for sales with numbers that are slightly more optimistic. Just a couple of weeks ago, SuperData was projecting a year-over-year decline in sales for the holiday quarter for the top VR headset makers.
But thanks to some new sales data on Oculus Rift and Playstation VR, the firm is now projecting a slight increase. Not a giant one, mind you, but at least the numbers are heading in a better direction.
Overall, SuperData had been projecting sales of only 2.345 million headsets for the quarter, down from 2.57 million sold one year ago over the holidays. That would have been a surprising drop, considering it included about 100,000 units projected for Windows Holographic.
Now the firm has bumped that number up to 2.77 million for the quarter, largely because it appears the Rift…
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