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by programbreeding 892 days ago
>Companies could offer these as a return to office incentive

So an office full of people with VR headsets on? I don't see the incentive in that compared to doing it from home.

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The incentive is that you can take your headset off and have a real face-to-face conversation with your coworkers. And when you want to go back and focus, you put the headset back on and are free of distractions.

I tried this for a few days with the Quest 2 in a coworking space. I thought it was cool, but the displays weren't good enough and I had trouble reading small text.

The incentive is that you can take your headset off and have a real *sweaty* face-to-*sweaty*-face conversation with your coworkers

fixed.

Why that instead of striking home and facetiming/zooming on the device itself?
You have a device that can present a virtual reality that you can share with people all around the world and you want to use it to visit an office and block out the people there? That seems a little backwards to me!