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Just how popular is virtual reality? It's hard to tell, but Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said "1 million people use VR every month" at the Oculus Connect 3 developer conference.

Zuckerberg didn't specify what VR specifically referred to. Does that include Google Cardboard? Samsung Gear VR and all of the mobile VR headset clones? He did name-check the competition, and didn't specify Oculus/Facebook in the stat, so it stands to reason he's including all VR experiences in that million.

Still, we wonder just how many of those 1 million monthly people are using the Oculus Rift. And what about the HTC Vive? And just how many people were using Oculus Rift developer kits before the consumer version of the headset launched this past spring?

Again, it's hard to tell how successful that is when VR, as a category, is so broad and spread across multiple different devices and platforms.

A million VR users does sound promising. Even though the Rift and Vive are available, it's still very, very early days for the "next computing platform."

Google's Daydream VR platform is set to launch in the next few months and PlayStation VR launches next week.