Metaverse is on fire! Meta VR Christmas sale

The tradition of Americans who like to buy electronics as Christmas gifts is not a day or two, but this year's popular choices are not just mobile phones, tablets, laptops, VR headsets are beginning to occupy a place, especially Meta VR.

The Apple App Store U.S. Free Apps List is a testament to that.

According to its rankings, Oculus, a virtual reality app owned by Meta (Facebook), topped the U.S. market on Christmas Day, also jumping into the top five in 14 countries. According to Qimai data, as of December 27, Beijing time, the app still ranked third in the free list in the US market.

Industry media TechWeb said that because the oculus VR device needs to be activated through the APP, the number of APP downloads can reflect the big sale of VR devices during the Christmas holiday.

While there may be voices stressing that the App Store doesn't provide a perfect leaderboard, CNBC said that at least it can reflect the popularity of the mobile app to some extent, and can provide a good glimpse of the popular technology trends during the Christmas holidays.

Then the metaverse should not be tolerated.

Zuckerberg bet heavily on metaversal Meta VR to win the first battle

There are countless companies eyeing the metaverse concept this year, and Zuckerberg-led Meta is one of them.

Zuckerberg's longing for the metacosm could also explain why he simply changed the company's name to Meta, the metaverse prefix Meta, who once said:

By the end of the century, the metaverse will be a place where we live, work, and play.

And he mentioned two years ago that 10 million users is the key threshold before the "explosive growth of content and ecosystems", and having 10 million users can motivate developers to continue to develop and profit from it, forming a virtuous circle.

Although Meta has not recently announced the sales of VR headsets, according to IDC data, as of the second quarter of this year, Meta maintained a leading position in the VR hardware market, with a market share of 75%, mainly with the Oculus Quest 2 to achieve huge growth.

CNBC emphasizes that more users is more data, and Meta can adjust the VR experience to meet the needs of users.

At present, there are also institutions in China that emphasize that in the early stage of the development of the meta-universe market, VR headsets will become the leading places. Among them, Zhongtai Securities pointed out that before Apple joined the war, Meta VR is expected to "dominate the world".