Bigscreen Past 2 orders flooded in final Thursday at a shocking tempo. Now, the PC VR headset maker notes that its subsequent slim and light-weight headset outsold the unique in 24 hours by a formidable margin, making its first day or gross sales equal to 6 months of what it did with Past 1.
We’ve already heard some spectacular stats following Bigscreen’s launch for Past 2 orders. In 25 minutes, Past 2 outsold the primary day of Past 1 gross sales. Within the first hour, they doubled Past 1 launch day gross sales. Inside 10 hours of launching orders, Past 2 offered greater than the primary 4 months of Past 1 gross sales.
In an X submit on Friday, Bigscreen founder and CEO Darshan Shankar revealed essentially the most spectacular gross sales stat but:
“Within the first 24 hours, Past 2 has offered 10 TIMES as many Past 1s offered on its launch day 2 years in the past. Within the first 24 hours, Past 2 has offered as a lot as Past 1 did in its first 6 months of gross sales. That’s distinctive.”
Shankar says the corporate did this with zero advert spend, noting “[w]e didn’t pay influencers to pump our product. We didn’t pay an company for an costly video. No promoting.”
The corporate did nonetheless ship just a few early Past 2 models to reviewers, which Shankar says was “[l]ike 10 models,” which, amongst others, included Examined, Thrillseeker, MRTV and VR Flight Sim Man.
In case you missed the information—you take a look at the specs, value and launch schedule right here—Past 2 is available in two flavors, one with eye-tracking (Past 2e) and one with out (Past 2), priced at $1,019 and $1,219 respectively.
Whereas it’s packing in the identical twin 1-inch 2,560 × 2,560 micro-OLED shows as the unique Past, the most important enchancment general is the headset’s bigger field-of-view (FOV) and higher readability due to the inclusion of a brand new pancake lens design. This bumps Past 2 to a 116-degree diagonal FOV over the authentic’s 102-degree diagonal FOV, and in addition contains an adjustable IPD mechanism in a lighter 107g design.
Though the primary batches had been quoted to ship in April (Past 2) and Might (Past 2e), on the time of this writing new orders of Past 2 and Past 2e are quoted to ship in June.
