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> It’s like writing an email client that forces you to hand write all of the emails and fill out the to field on a little envelope.

someone's not tried it.

VR meetings are, for a very select type of interaction, awesome. Talking to someone over VC is shite. Its half duplex, emotionally and physically draining. That effect is magnified when you add more than one other person.

VR meetings in a very supirsing way, feel more natural than VC. Its got 3d audio, which means low latency duplex talking can happen. You can have more than one conversation in the same VR "room"

None of that is possible with Video conferencing (yet).



VR doesn’t solve low latency, which is what causes people to talk over each other. I assume you haven’t tried VR with one participant on a saturated coffee shop WiFi 2k miles away.


> I assume you haven’t tried VR with one participant on a saturated coffee shop WiFi 2k miles away.

Coffee shop, no 140ms ping time away, yes. But you are confusing latency with half duplex. VCs cut the sound to all other streams when someone is talking[1]. which causes huge stuttering.

[1] mostly




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