During the 2021 Investor Day event, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said: Facebook (now Meta) has sold 10 million Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headsets. Although this number does not directly come from Meta, Qualcomm emphasizes that the company’s technology is also an important ticket to enter the meta-universe world.
Cristiano Amon added that Qualcomm is also committed to becoming a key participant in the VR/AR platform in an environment where the technology industry is betting on the meta-universe concept. Take the Oculus Quest 2 released in October last year as an example. It is equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chipset, which provides powerful computing power support for this independently usable VR hardware.
Previous Quest 2 sales data came from about 4 million headsets that Facebook voluntarily recalled during the summer. Therefore, the 10 million units disclosed by Qualcomm today still left us an extremely deep impression. In view of the fact that the social giant after the change of name Meta is planning a comprehensive transformation and breaking 10 million sales, it also means that the company has passed an important milestone.
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As early as 2019, when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg released the title of the first generation Quest, he commented that 10 million users will promote the explosion of the VR ecosystem. In an interview with UploadVR this summer, Facebook AR/VR vice president Andrew Bosworth predicted that the company may reach the goal of tens of millions of users earlier than initially expected.
However, after the meeting, a Qualcomm spokesperson clarified that the 10-million-unit shipments claimed by Cristiano Amon on stage were based on industry analysts’ estimated average value of the third-party market, not directly equivalent to two The exact sales data disclosed by the company.