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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by ninth_ant on Monday January 07, 2019 @03:46PM (#18849876)
Business travel by airplane is extremely common. The fluidity of face-to-face communication aids cooperative work in a way that hasn’t yet been duplicated at scale, despite many efforts to date.

That’s part of what VR aims to disrupt and achieve.

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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by woolvalley on Monday January 07, 2019 @06:00PM (#18851166)
Most video conferencing is fairly crap to it's actual potential, 2 decades in. I'm not so confident VR will be there either.
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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by radiorental on Monday January 07, 2019 @03:53PM (#18849942)
Yes, but who are these people and what are they doing when they travel?

VR is just a video conference call on steroids. Business travel is 'common' but relative to the rest of productive output at an average business it's peanuts. Also what portion of those business travelers absolutely need to be there. Would you buy from (a) a salesperson who took the time to travel to your workplace or (b) some telepresence pitch?

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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by vilhelmmoberg on Monday January 07, 2019 @04:20PM (#18850239)
It's not peanuts to the environment.

How about option c) donate the plane ticket to buy carbon offsets so as not to act "cheap". Even better, give the client that choice and see if they readily choose to pollute the environment (twice).

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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by jon-wood on Monday January 07, 2019 @04:23PM (#18850269)
Maybe I'm an outlier but I've had more productive video conferences with salespeople than I have with ones who've flown out to talk. Sure, you don't get the free steak lunch on a video call, but you also don't have to spend that lunch break being pitched on how amazingly cool their company is.
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