Meta sold 10 million Oculus Quest 2 headsets at Investor Day 2021, according to Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, which is the best benchmark to date for sales of Meta’s standalone VR platform since its launch last October.
“Our technologies are the ticket to the Metaverse,” said Amon, highlighting Qualcomm’s efforts to establish itself as a major player in VR and AR platforms, especially as the tech industry as a whole has such a strong emphasis on the Metaverse concept.
The news isn’t coming directly from Meta itself, but since the Quest 2 relies on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2 chipset to power its standalone VR hardware, Qualcomm appears to have an exact number for the headsets sold. The previous benchmark for the sales of Quest 2 resulted from the voluntary recall of around 4 million headsets by Meta over the course of the summer, which makes today’s mark of 10 million a significant increase.
The 10 million mark for the Quest 2 is also of particular importance in view of Meta’s goals of building a comprehensive VR platform: As early as 2019, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg commented, in addition to the introduction of the original Quest headset, that 10 million users an important threshold before the “ecosystem will simply explode.” Mark Bosworth, Meta’s VP of Augmented and Virtual Reality, had also announced to UploadVR over the summer that he expected Meta to achieve its goal of 10 million users “earlier than originally expected” will achieve.
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