Cowen asks (https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-robert-wiblin-stubborn-attachments-80000-hours-podcast-359aa62aa8ab …) if VR can finally replace face-to-faces. People this weekend agreed there's something special about face-to-face but not about what, when I asked: is voice enough? Gesture tracking? Eye-gaze tracking? Facial mapping? How could this be tested?
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Still doesn’t quite feel like the person’s right there next to you, and also 3D TVs flopped for some reason. You need a critical mass for these new media to work — eg look at FaceTime, I remember when everybody was saying that video calls sucked and that Apple shouldn’t do them
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Not sure about that example. Isn't that more a matter of polish and debugging and gradual improvements to Internet than 'critical mass'? Each FaceTime call presumably would work just as well if 2 people were using it as 20 million.
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Right but there’s a chicken and egg problem: why would you sign up to a video call service which none of your friends is signed up to? Apple solved that problem by including it by default in iOS
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I was trying to exclude the network effects there. For person-to-person meetings, you don't need a big network, you just need that specific person. (If I could get all the benefits but avoid a half-week-long trip to California by simply installing an app, I certainly would!)
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