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# The VR market shrunk yet again in 2024
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/the-vr-market-shrunk-yet-again-in-2024/
- Published: 2025-03-19T14:51:28.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-19T14:51:28.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

Counterpoint Research: [Global VR Market Declines 12% YoY in 2024; ‘AR+AI’ Smart Glasses to Take Centre Stage in 2025](https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insight/global-xr-arvr-headsets-market-2024/?ref=spyglass.org)

> Global VR headset shipments fell 12% YoY in 2024, marking their third consecutive year of declines due to the continued weak consumer demand.

This is actually brutal, 3 consecutive years of the VR market *shrinking*??? Also Meta dominates the space even more than I realized.

It looks like AR glasses boosted the overall numbers the last 2 years, and while they don’t break it out, you gotta think Meta’s doing pretty well there too.

I don’t know, man, it just feels like there’s a core group that loves VR, more people like it as an occasional media consumption novelty, but the vast majority of people just don’t care about it and I don’t know what it would take to get people over that hump because this has literally been the same story with VR for the past decade.