{"id":678,"date":"2017-01-10T09:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.victoryvr.biz\/?p=678"},"modified":"2021-12-13T18:57:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T18:57:26","slug":"vr-one-of-the-top-gifts-this-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victoryxr.com\/vr-one-of-the-top-gifts-this-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"VR &#8211; One of the Top Gifts this Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Reality headsets were predicted to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/11\/21\/here-are-the-hottest-emerging-tech-gadgets-this-holiday-season.html\">some of the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/top-10-holiday-tech-gifts-2016-ultimate-geeky-guide-2447101\">hottest gifts<\/a> this past holiday season. The Huffington Post even wrote a handy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2016\/12\/20\/vr-virtual-reality-christimas-gift-guide_n_13441956.html\">VR gift guide<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n<p>The holiday shopping sprees are over and the calendar has rolled over to 2017. How did VR play out to end the year?<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has named VR headsets one of their top selling items. Within the &#8220;wearable technology&#8221; segment listed on Amazon, the Samsung Gear VR joined Garmin&#8217;s fitness devices as one of the most popular items sold on Amazon over the 2016 Holiday Season. With <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/12\/25\/christmas-vr-headsets\/#AhQKEsMteOq3\">other VR products<\/a> &#8211; such as the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/was-2016-the-breakthrough-year-for-vr-on-the-pc\">showing strongly<\/a>\u00a0in 2016, one can only think that as competition heats up in the marketplace and the technology continues to evolve, 2017 will see VR-related sales continue to grow and become even more widely adopted by the public. That means that next year around this time you will be seeing even more of <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/12\/25\/christmas-vr-headsets\/#AhQKEsMteOq3\">THIS<\/a>\u00a0from your friends and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Reality headsets were predicted to be some of the hottest gifts this past holiday season. The Huffington Post even wrote a handy VR gift guide in December. 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