Virtual Reality Sheets 2017
In 2017, the virtual reality technology market (VR) will yield up to $4,9 billion in profits to companies, an increase of 172% over the previous year, 2016, as evidenced by the SuperData Agency ' s forecasts. The world ' s VR market could reach $38 billion by 2020, 20 times more than 2016, confident analysts.
In Russia, investment in the complemented reality industry (augmented reality, AR) and virtual reality (virtual reality, VR) increased by 3, 5 times in 2016, from 200 million roubles to more than 700 million roubles, and developers three times, up to 183 companies, is reported by the Association of Complementary and Virtual Reality (AVRA).
According to AVRA market and analysts, if promotional and marketing projects were established in 2015, in 2016, producers began to pay special attention to products for the education and entertainment sector, as well as for all real estate (architecture, sale).
Virtual $300 million
In AVRA, in the market segment AR/ VR, nine companies working on the Russian market accounted for real property. The total potential financial volume of this segment is estimated by industry players at $300 million, but this is only emerging in Russia, and last year has become a starting point for many companies for large projects and investments. The rapid growth of the market and the significant increase in the number of companies is expected in 2017. VRTech (Moscow) estimates that the average annual return of companies in this segment should be approximately $10 million.
At the end of March, an international technology exhibition will be held in German Gunnover, at which the AR/VR technology section will be announced for the first time in a separate room. The Russian market AR / VR in real estate through the Planoplan platform (Peterburg) will also be presented at the exhibition. In the company, Russian producers ' earnings in this direction over the past year were estimated at 100 million roubles with a 10-fold growth forecast to 1 billion roubles for 2017.
