{"id":48927,"date":"2015-03-20T03:01:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T03:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bi_virtual_reality_is_going_to_grow_like_crazy_over_the_next_five_years\/"},"modified":"2015-03-20T03:01:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T03:01:13","slug":"bi_virtual_reality_is_going_to_grow_like_crazy_over_the_next_five_years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48927","title":{"rendered":"(BI) Virtual reality is going to grow like crazy over the next five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual reality is just getting started. A bunch of companies, including HTC, Samsung, and Sony have shown off headsets that immerse you in a virtual world, and Facebook&#8217;s Oculus \u201d\u201d credited with kickstarting the latest craze \u201d\u201d has been selling a version to developers for some time now.<\/p>\n<p>But most people have never tried or even seen a VR headset, much less been able to buy one.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s going to change, fast. Business Insider Intelligence expects VR to be the next big thing in gaming, with 26.5 million units sold in 2020. That would give it a compound annual growth rate of nearly 100% \u201d\u201d in other words, sales, on average, will double every year for the next five. So get ready to be immersed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-virtual-reality-headset-sales-projections-2015-3\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual reality is just getting started. A bunch of companies, including HTC, Samsung, and Sony have shown off headsets that immerse you in a virtual world, and Facebook&#8217;s Oculus \u201d\u201d credited with kickstarting the latest craze \u201d\u201d has been selling<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48927\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,582,589,149,129,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-psychology","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}