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Zuckerberg: $100 million spent so far in Oculus Store

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that consumers have spent more than $100 million to date on apps in the Oculus Store. Zuckerberg made the announcement at the beginning of his keynote talk at the Oculus Connect 6 event in San Jose, California.

That’s one piece of data that shows that developers are seeing some success with virtual reality apps, which have been slower to take off than the wildest expectations that people had a few yeas ago.

Of course, this doesn’t give us the entire picture on how well VR apps and games are selling. Valve’s Steam PC store also sells VR games (and we think it’s a better place to buy apps from than Oculus). You can also get apps and games from HTC’s Viveport store.

Zuckerberg said that the Oculus Quest hardware — launched four months ago — is selling as fast as the company can make them. Jason Rubin, vice president at Facebook, also said that the Rift S is selling as fast as Oculus can make it.

 

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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.