GamesBeat’s top 10 AR and VR stories of the year: Pikachu and sex

In 2016, we finally got high-end virtual reality headsets from Oculus, HTC, and Sony, but it was a yellow-electric rat and the adult-film industry that made the most noise when it comes to the next generation of computing platforms.

Since most of the people who normally generate the headlines in the virtual reality and augmented reality markets are off for the holidays, we’ve decided to look back on the year. We’ve found the 10 most trafficked GamesBeat stories about the VR and AR markets in 2016. While you might expect people to care most about the new VR hardware that launched over the last 12 months, it turns that people care way more about VR adult entertainment and the augmented reality mobile game Pokémon Go.