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by temp129838 2647 days ago
One of the first mainstream, non-gaming applications for VR has got to be meetings.
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How's that going to work? Am I going to see avatars of my colleagues in 3D, or alternatively am I going to see actual images of my colleagues all wearing Oculus Rifts? Either way it's going to be weird.
The technology already exists to show lifelike avatars of meeting participants. https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-oculus-codec-avatars-vr...
Avatars. The main benefit over videoconferencing today would be meetings for remote collaboration e.g. hard to do remote "brainstorm together on a white board" type meetings remotely.