Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “VR Isn’t Cool”.
Survey says VR adoption slow among teens, who would have thought it. Our original Source here is uh digital information world. Only four percent of American teens say they use VR. Good Heavens, I thought it was worse. Only four percent of the Teen okay, around 29, said they own a VR headset. In spite of this, only four percent of the teenagers that own these headsets use them daily.
So that’s! That’S! Not four percent of overall people, that’s four percent of people that own the headset with 14 saying they use them on a weekly basis. What this means is less than one percent of American teenagers who responded to this survey, use VR headsets every day. Can I just jump in and say that’s a lot better than I thought it would be honestly it’s higher than I expected that’s 29. Where are you pulling these teenagers that 29 of them own a VR headset? This is like literally just it was okay, apparently, a sample size of 5 600 American teams yeah, but the size doesn’t matter as much if it’s all from like here, first one, if it’s I agree. No, I don’t consider this to be a controversial.
Take sir, I think that size is not the most important it’s how you use the number of people in the survey. How, where you got them from how you yeah you know uh yeah yeah so like if, if they pulled all of these 5600 people from like extremely affluent neighborhoods yeah, that’s gon na skew the results uh. I could see that skewing the results. Two ways: I could see that skewing the ownership percentage. Obviously, but I could also see that skewing the daily and weekly use yeah, because if you have a whole bunch of other like toys to play with, maybe you don’t play with your VR headset that much and if you, if all you have, is a VR headset. Maybe you use it more, probably use it a lot.
You probably use it to watch movies. You probably use it to play games when I could afford less games. I played fewer total of games more total of time yep. I mean there’s no way that today I would log the kind of hours in Pilot Wings yeah that I did when I was nine yeah, there’s just no way when you’re going like. Ah, I want to play a video game and you have two yeah like like. I owned four cartridges: Super Mario World Super Mario All-Stars pilot wings and uh Final Fantasy. Six, that’s a good setup. I mean yeah good setup, it’s not like they were bad games. Yeah.
What’S really funny is I used to I used to like rent games yeah and never enjoy them, because I guess I already owned all the best game to your games on the platform completely by accident. I just thought the box art for Final Fantasy was super cool. Like that’s uh yeah like pure pure chance, yeah yeah sampling, bias, someone said yeah there you go yeah, it’s like it’s a decent number, but I don’t know I don’t I don’t I don’t if you could somehow it’s not reasonable, but if you could somehow pull all Teenagers in America, I seriously doubt that number stays around 29.
Oh, not even close, no shot, not even close uh. The rest of our notes say: teenagers are typically seen as a Bellwether of the direction of future technology. I mean yes and no have we talked a bit about how like gen Z, is apparently hitting the workplace and yeah? I think we did talk about that recently. Just like has no idea how to you know, set up a printer and stuff.
It’S like yeah yeah. Okay, there’s definitely things we need that teenagers, don’t think, is cool and stuff. That’S like not going away.
That might be more true, uh uh, for like technology Trends in Insurance, consumer technology, okay, it works works. That’S fair. The study’s creators state that the lukewarm usage demonstrates that VR remains early days and that these devices are less important than smartphones I mean did we need a survey of 5 600 people to tell us that these devices are less important than smartphones? Maybe not, but I mean hey yeah. It doesn’t hurt to back up your your feeling with data. So that’s good yep, um, yup yup for context 84 of American teens have their own phone. That number I do actually believe and 81 of a game console. That’S pretty surprising really, so I was pretty unusual.
Then I didn’t have a game console until I oh. This is really interesting. I did not own a game console in my teens. I had a Super Nintendo when I was a pre-teen I moved to my parents or to my mom’s. I did not own a game console until I bought a Wii. I had already graduated high school.
I was 20. my brother and I wow. I never thought about that. My brother and I have have fond memories of working together to collaboratively. This was like I don’t know if this was. This must have been orchestrated by my parents somehow to get us to like learn like teamwork and like co-funding, things and stuff, because my brother and I busted, but like actually really hard to be able to afford. I think it was more than one console. We both have extremely Vivid memories of like once.
We had finally pooled our money together enough to be able to buy Donkey Kong 64.. That, like is in the yellow cartridge, but also came with the N64 booster pack thing, which was just like more RAM or something. I don’t know what it was um like that took us a while to save for because actually like quite some time, but we got it and it was awesome. I literally remember the Walmart that we went to to buy it.
I remember what door we were entering from. I remember what side of that door we entered from this is like an important memory in my brain, and we recently discovered that he also remembers exactly those details. This was like and we earned those damn consoles. That’S awesome! It was cool, I don’t know, I’m down with it um, except for the the original Xbox with Halo.
That was a Christmas present yeah. I remember you told me the story yeah like hard trolled us on it was like all set up under this thing. That was like unrelated, and it was like he convinced us that it was a gift for Mom and that we were supposed to stop everyone else from getting it to be one of the presents that was opened early. We have very long Christmases.
It came from a long time we’re not gon na explain why, but like we spend a lot of time with each present that gets open. You open your present, you examine it for a little bit. You pass around people check it out. You play with it for a second whatever, and then we go into the next one.
So it was like hours of my brother and I fighting everyone else in the family off from getting us to open this thing, because we thought it was a crystal ball. Why? That would be a thing for my mom, so neither of us questioned like why the heck did you buy Mom a crystal ball, but we were both like okay, there’s no way anyone’s gon na like open this. My dad told no one else so everyone’s confused, because they know what it is so they’re like trying to get us to open this present for ourselves and we’re, like he’s just sitting there laughing his butt off yeah at this Dynamic that he’s created so funny. That was that was a that was a kingly present.
That’S awesome played a lot of Halo .