Half-Life: Alyx was one of the most anticipated VR launches ever, and now it's got the numbers to back that hype up. Thanks to data crunched by Road To VR, we can now see just how big Alyx's impact on the VR market was, with a dramatic spike in the number of VR headsets connected to Steam in the month of April.
The data tracks the number of VR headsets that are connected to Steam within a given month--so while it can't tell us whether they were actually used or not, it's a close enough metric to look at active VR users.
The figures from the monthly Steam hardware survey show that 1.91% of Steam users connected a headset during the month of April, and thanks to Road to VR's tracking of these stats we can tell what a big jump that is--it's triple the spike in VR connections that happened over the December-January holiday period.
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