VR Developer Survey

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* 1. What is your age?

18 to 24

25 to 34

35 to 44

45 to 54

55+

Prefer not to say

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* 2. In what country do you live?

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* 3. What is your gender?

Female

Male

Decline to state

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* 4. How many years have you worked professionally as a developer?

0-2 years

3-5 years

6-10 years

10-20 years

20-30 years

30+ years

I'm not sure

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* 5. How many people work at your company?

1-9

10-50

51-100

101-500

501-1000

1001+

I'm not sure

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* 6. How many people are in your specific team or group?

1-2 people

3-5 people

6-10 people

11-20 people

21+ people

I'm not sure

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* 7. Revenue for your company in 2018 was

Under $20,000

$20,000 - $49,999

$50,000 - $99,999

$100,000 - $249,999

$250,000 - $999,999

$1 million or more

I am not sure / decline to state

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* 8. Please identify your role in your company's VR initiatives

I lead my company's VR initiatives

I am actively involved in my company's VR initiatives

I have monitored VR initiatives in an admin capacity

I have limited or passing knowledge of my company's VR initiatives

I am not involved with VR

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* 9. Which of the following commercial game engines are you familiar with?

Illusory

Unreal Engine

PhyreEngine

Unity

Uplevel

CryEngine

Coco2d

None of the above - I don't know any of these or have only used proprietary engines

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* 10. What do you think is most exciting about developing VR-based apps?

Being at the forefront of new tech

Being involved in creating something that has never been done before

Opportunities to explore a wide variety of industries

Learning new techniques / expanding knowledge base

The type of people the industry attracts

Other (please specify)

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* 11. Who is your main audience as a developer?

Enterprise / Public Sector / Education

Consumers

Events

Location-based entertainment

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* 12. FOR ENTERPRISE, please select the following industries for which you have helped develop and deliver VR apps and content in the last 3 years.

Energy / Utilities / Natural Resources

Education

Manufacturing / Heavy Industry

Retail & Consumer Products

Healthcare / Medical

Financial Services

Public Sector

Architecture / Engineering / Construction

Aerospace

Business / Professional Services

Media / Entertainment

Automotive

Hospitality / Travel

Not Applicable

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* 13. FOR CONSUMER, please select the following consumer VR app or content types that you have helped develop and deliver in the last 3 years.

Social networking, private communication or group text/voice/video chat

Games

Other consumer-oriented app or content type (personal expression, productivity, etc.)

Commercial or user-generated videos or photos

Not applicable

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* 14. FOR GAMES, what type or genre of game are you working on now, or did you last complete if you are between projects?

Family, children & party (i.e., Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes)

Role playing (i.e., Skyrim VR, Asgard’s Wrath)

Sandbox (i.e., Minecraft VR)

Playing card, casino & billiards (i.e., PokerStars VR, Sports Bar VR)

Physical fitness & health-related (i.e., Knockout League, Sparc, Hotsquat)

Action and Open World Action (i.e., Stormland, LA Noire: The VR Case Files)

Battle Royale (i.e., Population One, Stand Out VR Battle Royal)

Fighting (i.e., Ninja Legends, Gorn)

Puzzle (i.e., I Expect You To Die, Curious Tales of the Stolen Pets, A Fisherman’s Tale)

Indie (unusual games from small studios i.e., Fujii, Where Thoughts Go)

Classic board & collectible cards (i.e., Monopoly, Catan VR)

Adventure (story-driven games like Moss & The Gallery – Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone)

Shooter (i.e., Space Pirate Trainer, Gun Club VR, Farpoint)

Strategy & tactics (i.e., Skyworld: Kingdom Brawl, Final Assault)

Simulators (i.e., Job Simulator, Prison Boss)

Music, dancing & rhythm (i.e., Beat Saber, Audica, Audioshield)

Educational & brain training (including number-based games like Sudoku)

Multiplayer Shooters (Pavlov VR, Onward)

Word & trivia (i.e., VR Trivia Battle)

Classics (i.e., Pac-Man, Atari or NES / SNES game emulators)

Not applicable

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* 15. What commercial game engines and middleware tools have you used to develop VR apps / content in the past year?

Havok (physics engine)

Unity

RAD Game Tools

Unreal Engine

WebVR

React 360

Autodesk Gameware

Skillz

FMOD from Firelight Tech.

Wwise from Audiokinetic

CryEngine

Graphine (Granite SDK)

NVIDIA GameWorks

Adobe 3ds Max, Maya or Substance

Native (C++)

Other, proprietary or not sure

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* 16. What is the biggest challenge or deterrent for you in terms of developing and commercializing VR-based apps today?

Lack of tools and documentation

The end user experience as it exists today

Lack of hardware innovation

Investor or project funder concerns about the industry’s prospects (or our project's prospects)

Project management or team-based challenges

Low audience adoption

Lack of solid business model strategies

Some other factor, please specify

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* 17. Given the main challenge you've identified, have you previously encountered a similar problem? If so, how did you (or your group/team) address this challenge?

I have never encountered this type of challenge before

I have encountered a similar problem in the past, but it stumped me/us

I have encountered a similar problem before and I/we were able to overcome it by [please explain, and while not mentioning specific people or apps/companies, briefly describe the specific problem you ran into and give some details on the solution that ultimately worked]

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* 18. What do you think has changed in the industry over the last year?

More media attention

Better development tools and documentation

More companies interested in incorporating VR into their processes

Wider end-user adoption

More developers entering the space

More funding for VR projects and companies

Other (please specify)

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* 19. What is the biggest hardware challenge today?

Cost to end users to buy VR hardware

Integrating VR into existing systems and processes

Competing platforms (fragmentation of the install base)

Tethering (to PCs or game consoles)

Lack of mobile platforms (mobile VR is weakly supported)

Design challenges

The user experience is lacking

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* 20. What do you think VR hardware companies should do to better support developers?

Early access to developer kits

Up front content investment

Technical support

More mass marketing

Developer exclusive discounts

Accessory deals

I don’t know

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* 21. What do you think is the biggest challenge that the VR market faces today?

The hardware is generally poorly designed; it’s uncomfortable to wear for extended periods

The hardware costs too much / users can’t afford it

Latency / WiFi

The games, apps or content cost too much

Security

Tethering / lack of mobility

The content isn't exciting enough (the games, videos and apps don't appeal to users)

General lack of awareness about or interest in VR experiences

The hardware doesn’t work well enough (poor performance, bad user experience)

Other or not sure

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* 22. What industries and market segments are best primed for VR growth in 2020? Select top 3

Entertainment / Media

Art

Enterprise

Training / Simulation

E-commerce / Retail

Gaming

Education

Science

Location-based Entertainment

Military

I’m not sure

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* 23. What areas are you most focused on?

Tethered VR platforms (HTC VIVE or VIVE PRO, Oculus Rift or Rift S, Sony PSVR, Valve Index, etc.)

Stand-alone VR systems (Oculus Quest or Go, HTC Focus, etc.)

Mobile VR (Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, etc.)

I’m not sure

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* 24. Are you creating, or will you create content for multiple VR platforms in 2020

Yes

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* 25. Which platforms did you develop for in 2019?

VIVE Wave SDK

Nvidia VRworks

ARM Mali VR SDK

Qualcomm Snapdragon VR SDK

VIVE SENSE SDK

VIVEPORT SDK

Steamworks SDK

OpenVR SDK

Oculus SDK

Google Daydream SDK

Other or not sure

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* 26. What are the biggest drawbacks to existing developer tools?

The available user interface options aren't great

The audio middleware tools aren't robust or flexible enough

The server-side (multiplayer/social) tools are weak

The commercial game engines have clear limitations

The art/asset creation tools out there need work

Other or not sure

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* 27. What are the biggest pain points with technical documentation? (engines, art creation, audio, etc.)

Hard to find what I'm looking for quickly online

The topics documented online aren't specific or clear enough to address my problems

It’s hard to get someone from the toolmaker or engine provider to respond to my question quickly

Responses to my queries from toolmakers, engine providers or from other developers are incomplete or wrong

Some other factor

I don’t know or not sure

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* 28. What are the biggest challenges you face when marketing new content?

Lack of time to prepare trailers or in-VR previews

Breadth of competition

Low visibility of title on the stores

Lack of marketing team or resources/money

Few promotional campaigns or sales events hosted by platforms

Niche appeal of industry currently

Lack of publications regularly covering VR content

Small user base

Other (please specify)

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