Virtual Economy Research Unit Date: October 2024 Subject: Digital Distribution, Intellectual Property, and Consumer Behavior in Virtual Reality

If you want to narrow this down, are you looking for (like shooters or rhythm games) or particular VR hardware (like Meta Quest, Valve Index, or mobile VR)?

In March 2024, a popular “free Boneworks download” on YouTube led users to a Trojan that hijacked Steam session tokens, resulting in $200,000 in inventory theft from CS:GO/VR skins.

VR headsets themselves—from the Meta Quest 2 and 3 to the Valve Index and PSVR2—are significant investments. After spending hundreds of dollars on hardware, the prospect of paying $30 to $60 per game can be daunting. This is why the search term is one of the most popular queries in the immersive tech space.