{"id":21323,"date":"2016-01-29T11:46:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T19:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/greenlight-vr-report-consumers-are-surprisingly-unaware-of-virtual-reality"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:13:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:13:57","slug":"greenlight-vr-report-consumers-are-surprisingly-unaware-of-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/greenlight-vr-report-consumers-are-surprisingly-unaware-of-virtual-reality","title":{"rendered":"Greenlight VR Report: Consumers Are Surprisingly Unaware of Virtual Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/greenlight-vr-report-consumers-are-surprisingly-unaware-of-virtual-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the consumers (who happen to be your primary customer) of your product doesn\u2019t seem to be fully aware of your product; then you have indeed a broken product marketing and launch awareness program. And, if industry is also part of that picture; you may have an even bigger challenge.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>After our latest <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/12\/17\/vr-consumer-insights-for-2016-provided-by-greenlight-vr\/\">US consumer research in October 2015<\/a>, we wanted to find out if the trends we were seeing in the survey data held for a larger, more international pool. In December, <a href=\"http:\/\/greenlightvr.com\/reports\/2016-uk-consumers-report\">we surveyed over 1,000 respondents throughout the United Kingdom<\/a> about their awareness of virtual reality, interest in purchasing headsets and trying applications, and their concerns.<\/p>\n<p>With everyone from Facebook\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-01-13\/goldman-sachs-has-four-charts-showing-the-huge-potential-in-virtual-and-augmented-reality\">analysts at Goldman Sachs<\/a> boldly claiming VR as the next computing platform, we believe it is critical strategic decision makers \u2014 product managers, marketers, and investors alike \u2014 better understand the industry\u2019s potential early adopters and what they really want from our industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/01\/29\/greenlight-vr-report-consumers-are-surprisingly-unaware-of-virtual-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the consumers (who happen to be your primary customer) of your product doesn\u2019t seem to be fully aware of your product; then you have indeed a broken product marketing and launch awareness program. And, if industry is also part of that picture; you may have an even bigger challenge. After our latest US consumer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68681,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21323\/revisions\/68681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}