According to ABI Research, this year's Mobile World Congress proved the perfect springboard for showcasing virtual reality, so much so that the company is now predicting that 50 million headsets will be shipped globally every year by the end of the decade,-including devices that work with a smartphone. The most basic virtual reality design, Google's Cardboard,-has already hit 5 million orders and it's very simplicity --the fact that it can be used-with an-Android smartphone - is what really giving consumers- a taste for VR. "Smartphones are the perfect platform for the VR market, because they already have the power and technological functionality necessary to create a fun, in-depth simulated environment," said ABI Research Analyst Eric Abbruzzese.



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