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> No one's done it outside of a lab before.

Depends on the person. There are many videos [1] where people report that feeling of social presence e.g. whilst working in a virtual cafe.

Question now is whether Apple/Meta can bring that feeling to everyone.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAA9hBwnQKQ



Indeed, and to clarify, it's not a binary feeling for anyone-- IRC is better than email, FaceTime is better than the telephone. VRChat is state of the art on prosumer hardware, but it's not competitive with the boardroom. Yet.




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