[dmattia]

Will it let me feel the breeze at the top of Half Dome?

Or have me chase a squirrel around after it stole my snacks?

Or have me feel the pride of accomplishing a long hike that I trained for?

Or let me talk with interesting people along the route and hear about their travels?

Or help me find an incredible pizza restaurant with concepts that aren't in my local suburban area?

Or give me the health benefits of hiking outdoors?

I'm not sure how a headset could ever obviate the desire for travel

[GuB-42]

A need for a lot of travel, not all travel.

You mention hiking several times, I assume it is something you enjoy. Now, imagine, instead of regularly having to travel to Yosemite from your local suburban area, you instead go live in Yosemite and use your headset to do the things you did in your suburban area. More hiking, less time spent in transport.

[selykg]

Certain types of travel will always exist. But traveling for work? That's an entire idea I can get behind avoiding.

[agos]

Me too, but if you're not avoiding it now the Apple Vision will not make a big difference

[asdff]

Why can't you avoid it now? Just open zoom. No need for gen 5 avp.

[RandomThoughts3]

And yet everyone who has ever worked with an offshore team knows that nothing beats time spent in the same room. I don’t expect VR to change that.

[asdff]

Well when you account for the time spent travelling, the time spent socializing and shmoozing, the boxed lunch hour, etc, that adds up to a whole lot of wasted time on top of what could have easily been a 45 min zoom meeting, or an email. Its fun I guess if you get all your social outlet from your coworkers, but if you get it from anywhere else it probably feels like you just got drafted when you get sent to meet the distributed team in person.

[RandomThoughts3]

You are missing the point here. Plenty of things can’t be a 45 minutes meeting. Sometime what you incorrectly call schmoozing and I call building a bond is the point and is extremely necessary. People are not machine.

[luqtas]

that's not consumerism!