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Samsung confirms it sold 5 million Gear VR mobile headsets

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Samsung Electronics America president Tim Baxter announced that the company has sold 5 million Gear VR virtual reality headsets for mobile devices to date.

The South Korean electronics giant made the announcement at its press event at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week.

Baxter said that consumers have viewed over 10 million hours of video, and he said more hours of video are being uploaded via Gear 360 camera.

That’s good news for the VR industry — particularly software makers — as most reports have suggested that VR is off to a slow start. But it confirms that mobile VR is accounting for the bulk of the market so far, in contrast to PC-based VR hardware.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.