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I doubt it. If this was true, we'd already be there. We have teleconferencing and long distance communications already, and this doesn't really happen.

You would have to go beyond mere conferencing, and create specialized tools that can be interacted with in VR so people can produce something together that they couldn't before. There is little value in just having everyone pretend they're in an office.

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Try something like Rec Room on the Vive or Oculus before you proclaim it no different than video conferencing. This is a human perception problem and the feeling of being there and hand signals alone makes an enormous difference. You have to try it to understand. There are all these big and small factors for why video conferencing doesn't replace all communication. VR can in the long term remove most if not all of them, except for latency.

Very much agree; this is what we're doing at http://stirlinglabs.com for large-scale engineering.

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