Make real profits in a virtual reality

It has long been promised as “the next big thing”, but virtual reality is finally living up to its potential, says Matthew Partridge. Smart investors should buy in now.

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What's the biggest sector in the entertainment industry? If you guessed music, or film, you guessed wrong. Believe it or not, the computer games industry outstrips them both combined. In 2016, gaming sales are expected to hit around $90bn, compared with $62bn spent on films, and just $18bn on music. And the business is still growing fast researchers such as Gartner estimate growth of around 8%-9% a year. It's all down to an explosion in computer processing power.

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Dr Matthew Partridge
Shares editor, MoneyWeek

Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

He has previously written for a wide range of publications, including the Guardian and the Economist, and also helped to run a newsletter on terrorism. He has spent time at Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and the consultancy Lombard Street Research.

Matthew is the author of Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history, published by Harriman House, which has been translated into several languages. His second book, Investing Explained: The Accessible Guide to Building an Investment Portfolio, is published by Kogan Page.

As senior writer, he writes the shares and politics & economics pages, as well as weekly Blowing It and Great Frauds in History columns He also writes a fortnightly reviews page and trading tips, as well as regular cover stories and multi-page investment focus features.

Follow Matthew on Twitter: @DrMatthewPartri