Metacosmic social platform Rec Room recently announced that its number of MONTHly VR active users reached 3 million, much higher than the 1 million a year ago. Because the platform also supports non-VR devices such as PCs, consoles and smartphones, the company says it's only a fraction of its total monthly active users, with Rec Room already installed billions of units on all platforms such as IOS, Android, PS, XBOX and more.
It is understood that Rec Room was originally a VR social application, and then began to support non-VR devices such as PCs, game consoles, and mobile phones. Featuring a combination of social and multiplayer mini-games, the app has continued to be popular with users since its launch, with a total of more than 37 million users as of the beginning of the year. It's become a great place for VR and non-VR players to socialize, and the game's economic strategy continues to inspire creators.
Shawn Whiting, the company's head of partners, said that Quest users account for the majority of Rec Room's VR users, which may be one of the important reasons for Rec Room's user growth, considering the promotion effect of the holiday on Quest sales. And at this stage, most of the users of Rec Room should come from non-VR clients, and the proportion of VR active players among all active players is "quite low", and most users are accessed through platforms such as iOS, Android, PlayStation and Xbox.
For Rec Room, it has many opponents, such as the already listed Roblox, which not only has a market value of nearly $60 billion, but also becomes the world's largest multiplayer online creative game, with 100 million monthly active users and more than 5 million young developers. Another rival, Meta's Horizon Worlds, is also a VR social game, which is even more menacing.
I guess the reason why Rec Room released this data at this point in time may have something to do with competitor Horizon Worlds announcing the launch of a sales testing tool in the game.