VR Market 2026: A Fan Sells All His Headsets – and Still Loves the Technology

TVS News AI, editorially supervised, presents VR Market 2026: A Fan Sells All His Headsets – and Still Loves the Technology.

You love a technology – and you give it up anyway. An author describes precisely this contradiction in a column at Eurogamer DE, and the opening reads like a scene that fits perfectly into January 2026.

The guy he just sold his PlayStation VR2 to is a VR newcomer. He owns a racing seat with a steering wheel, gear shifter, and pedals – and now plays Gran Turismo 7 the way people imagined the future of video gaming ten years ago: right in the cockpit, completely blown away – and probably no longer easy to convince that a television is also an acceptable way to enjoy racing games.

An Enthusiast Steps Down

The author loves VR. Nevertheless, with the PSVR2 his last headset is gone. The URL of the post – "vr-markt-2026-letzte-vr-brille-verkauft" – suggests that the column situates the VR market at the start of 2026. What specific reasons he gives for giving up the headset after years, you can read in the linked original text.

What's clear: Here it's not a corporation or an investor throwing in the towel – it's an enthusiast doing it. That makes the text a rare counterpoint to the usual marketing narrative about "the future of gaming".

You can read the full piece with the author's reasoning at Eurogamer DE: I love VR. And yet I've sold all my headsets.