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Samsung's Gear VR to Retain Lead in 2017 as Google's Daydream Platform Emerges

Samsung's Gear VR to Retain Lead in 2017 as Google's Daydream Platform Emerges

Smartphones May 8,2017 0

Competition in the high-end smartphone virtual reality market is heating up in 2017 with Google's Daydream platform emerging to offer an alternative to the established market leader, Samsung's Gear VR.

According to the latest forecasts from IHS Markit, Daydream View headset sales are forecast to jump from 120,000 in 2016 to 2.23 million in 2017 and will enjoy growing industry support from third-party smartphone vendors in the second half of 2017. While this growth is impressive, IHS Markit forecasts that Samsung's Gear VR will remain the market leader in the high-end smartphone VR sector in 2017 with sales of 4.1 million.

Samsung ended 2016 as the VR platform market leader due to its early mover advantage, high-quality VR experience and aggressive go-to-market strategy for Gear VR. However, the competitive landscape for VR headsets is unsettled and fast moving where newly released products from major competitors can quickly alter the balance of the market, IHS Markit says. Google Daydream's impact on the market will take time to materialize as smartphone vendors get to grips with the high-end requirements for Daydream accredited phones, especially supply-chain pinch points such as OLED displays.

In 2016, Samsung used its Gear VR headset as a marketing tool to promote sales of its Galaxy S7 smartphone and implemented appropriate pre-order bundling strategies across many sales territories. In 2017, Samsung has taken a more targeted approach retaining the offer for the launch of the Galaxy S8 in USA and Australia, but dropping it in a number of European territories.

With this change in strategy - partly driven by the Galaxy S8's already clearly differentiated feature set - and the higher price point of the new Gear VR including motion controller, IHS Markit expects unit sales of Gear VR to decline year-on-year, although it will remain the biggest premium platform for VR content across the major brands.

IHS Markit forecasts that consumer sales of Samsung's Gear VR will decline by 9.6 percent by year's end, from 4.56 million in 2016 to 4.12 million.

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