Valve simply up to date the Steam {Hardware} Survey to checklist Quest 3S – however solely from Steam Hyperlink customers.
What Is The Steam {Hardware} Survey?
The Steam {Hardware} & Software program Survey is obtainable to a random pattern of Steam’s consumer base every month. If you happen to settle for, it uploads an inventory of your PC specs and peripherals to Valve, in addition to any headset used on SteamVR previously month.
Yesterday we reported on the discharge of the November Steam {Hardware} Survey information. Most notably, the absence of Quest 3S and the anomalous enhance within the ‘Different’ class. As we defined although, this typically occurs when a brand new headset launches, and inside a number of days Valve normally provides a brand new class.
At the moment that has occurred for Quest 3S, displaying it as representing 1.05% of SteamVR utilization in November.
Nevertheless, there’s a vital caveat to notice. UploadVR discovered that SteamVR sees Quest 3S as ‘Quest 3’ when utilizing Meta’s official Quest Hyperlink function, and Digital Desktop’s developer Man Godin confirmed to UploadVR that Quest 3S headsets utilizing his software report back to SteamVR as ‘Quest 3’ too. Meaning the 1.05% determine above solely represents Quest 3S house owners utilizing Valve’s official Steam Hyperlink app for Quest. The remaining are buried throughout the ‘Quest 3’ progress.
Even given this, it seems that Quest 3S is being adopted by PC VR customers at a barely decrease charge than Quest 3 was. By this time final yr Quest 3 had already reached 5.2% of SteamVR utilization. As compared, even when we assume that 100% of the ‘Quest 3’ progress within the newest information was from Quest 3S, it will solely be at 3.37%. And given Meta has been providing the 128GB mannequin of Quest 3 for $430 as a clearance sale (it was discontinued and the 512GB mannequin minimize to its $500 value), a few of that ‘Quest 3’ progress actually will embody Quest 3.
It is sensible for Quest 3S for use much less on PC than Quest 3, although. The clear and sharp exactly adjustable pancake lenses of Quest 3 attracts tech fanatic patrons, much more prone to personal a gaming PC and prepared to pay the upper value. In the meantime, the accessible entry value of Quest 3S attracts a extra informal viewers, extra prone to solely use the headset standalone.
Collectively, Meta & Oculus headsets now make up precisely two thirds of SteamVR utilization, with Valve in distant second at 14.5%. Its Index headset is now nearly six years previous, and previously yr its utilization has steadily declined as new headsets like Quest 3 and Bigscreen Past entice house owners to improve. Valve has been engaged on a brand new headset for years now, although, and its controllers just lately leaked, suggesting 2025 would possibly simply be the yr it lastly launches.