> and you can leave at any time

You can do that online as well, no?

I suppose if you elect to not remain anonymous there could be an issue, but generally speaking I don’t know that this is a problem.

Yes, VR is online, but it’s a weird embodied immersive presence version of online that can feel a bit like hanging out in meatspace. And it has a off button.

Yes, but VR has the advantage of feeling closer to IRL meetups in some ways. Head and hand movement does a lot.

Everyone's pushing IRL meetings though. Apart from tech, most industries are back at the office...

Were we talking specifically about corporate work? There's more to meetings or meetups than just your job.

That said, I think VR/AR may eventually be a way to enhance online work meetings. It doesn't seem like it's there yet overall, but eventually I could definitely see it working.

Can you elaborate on how VR would enhance meetings? I really don’t see the point myself. I don’t want to meet some avatar in a virtual room and I don’t know anybody who would.

He elaborated and you didn't understand

There are tons of accounts of how you feel a sense of 'presence' in VR. The head tracking fools your lizard brain into thinking you're actually there in the virtual world.

If you're reading this site I'm guessing you have access to $400. Just go buy a Quest 2 and try it out for 10 minutes, and you'll see what I mean.

Compared to standard video calls, there'd be a much greater sense of presence. Head movement, hand movement, and eye contact (once that's standard) would increase how close it feels to IRL meetings.

"if people are trying to chase you away, you can always leave."

not a solution per se

Or mute them, which is an excellent solution.

Which is a solution that scales extremely poorly in a global environment with potentially billions of people you might want to mute. More so in an environment which supports anonymity, so that they can just keep creating new accounts.

In that case one could rely on an allow list rather than a block list.

Now you’re so keen on being right that you’ve lost sight of the value that was originally proposed in the first place.

Kind of like spam you can heuristically figure out who is hurling abuse at people and ban/shadowban/automute their communications to people they are attempting to abuse.

I can imagine that the same way you have a shared list of undesirables. Essentially an assholeblock instead of adblock.

This would be a good idea but people can just make new accounts. It would also be open to abuse so it would need an appeal system and some sort of judiciary.

I don't understand why reputation isn't a solution offered for spam and bad people. Why not make users on the internet build trust.

For egregious breaches you don't need to give them an appeal just ban them. For less egregious situations client side filtering like adblock doesn't get one either by virtue of people not owing you their time.

You can also avoid talking to people and attending social events as much possible but that's terrible as humans are social.