Index and Quest 3 go head-to-head in the latest SteamVR stats
The gap between Valve Index and Quest 3 has never been as small as it was last month. This is shown by the latest SteamVR statistics.
In January, it looked like Meta Quest 3 would easily overtake Valve Index. Three months later, the five-year-old headset is still in second place, albeit by a slim margin.
In April, the Valve Index lost ground while the Quest 3 gained share. As a result, the gap has narrowed and the two headsets are now separated by only 0.43 percentage points. SteamVR's share of all Meta headsets was exactly 66.6 percent in April, slightly higher than in March.
SteamVR statistics of the most used PC VR headsets. | Image: Screenshot by MIXED
Pico 4 saw the most growth this month and is now close to the 3 percent mark, but still lags behind legacy headsets like Oculus Rift CV1 and HTC Vive (both came to market in 2016).
SteamVR users as a percentage of the total Steam user base grew by 0.10 percentage points, but remains below 2 percent at 1.92 percent.
What are Valve's SteamVR statistics?
SteamVR is the most popular PC VR platform. Quest can be used on a PC with either wired or wireless PC VR streaming via Air Link, Virtual Desktop, and Steam Link.
Valve's monthly updated Steam hardware & software survey tracks all VR headsets that have been used with a PC and Steam in the past month and whose users participated in the survey. From this, conclusions can be drawn about the relative distribution of PC VR headsets among each other.
However, the survey does not track other non-SteamVR powered platforms, such as Playstation VR 2, or standalone devices that are not used on a PC, so it only reflects a small proportion of the overall VR market.
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