The statistic shows the results of a survey in the United States concerned with the potential future applications of virtual reality headsets, by age group. Some 42 percent of the respondents between the ages of 14 and 19 years said that they believed virtual reality headsets would be used for movies and television. The VR market is set to grow at a very fast rate in the following years, with the revenue from virtual reality products forecast to reach 5.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2018.
In which fields of application do you think virtual reality headsets are likely to be used?*
Age group
Shopping
Tourism (for example sightseeing)
How-tos/tutorials (for example driving lessons or cooking courses)
Professional tasks (for example for architects or pilots)
Communication
Education
Adult entertainment
Medicine & psychology (for example for surgeries or treatment of PTSD)
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