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    1. Balaji Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 12 May 2020

      Virtual office I would like to see a startup of size 10-100 buy VR headsets for all employees and try working remote from a virtual office. There are a few VR office apps out there now, so writing up a review of your experience would be valuable. https://futurism.com/vr-app-replace-offices …pic.twitter.com/8TVHKkig3W

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 May 2020
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      You're also going to have to import a new species of humans to employ in this startup, too. 😀 Well, maybe high-enough unemployment will help, but not that much with the kind of people who have a choice of where to work.

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    3. Balaji Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 12 May 2020
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      Balaji Srinivasan Retweeted Balaji Srinivasan

      For some kinds of problems VR environments are already huge improvements. I started doing bioinformatics ~20 years ago — and when I used @nanome_inc recently with a colleague, I felt like an accountant that just saw his first electronic spreadsheet.https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1253794365392089089 …

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      Balaji SrinivasanVerified account @balajis
      The only thing that can really hold back VR at this point is supply chain disruption. Was just trying out Nanome for collaborative 3D biochemistry and genomics. It is absolutely the future. Transformative experience for student and professional alike. https://nanome.ai/  pic.twitter.com/ohd6qunUM2
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 May 2020
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      I can totally see it being useful for protein visualizations or applications like that! VR for regular office work seems to be the worst of all possible worlds: combining the downsides of open office with the downsides of isolation with the downsides of uncanny valley sociality.

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    5. Balaji Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 12 May 2020
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      Balaji Srinivasan Retweeted Neeraj K. Agrawal

      Zeynep, it’s happening in the crypto community already. VR conferences are getting good. https://twitter.com/neerajka/status/1260214337958023171?s=21 …https://twitter.com/NeerajKA/status/1260214337958023171 …

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      Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA
      I keep thinking about the VR conference experience. It was a big janky but there is definitely something there. It’s way better than a call. I dismissed it as a toy at first but now, if I were the type, I would be trying to invest in VR companies
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 May 2020
      Replying to @balajis @nanome_inc

      I think there are things where the geek-folk in San Francisco are really just ahead of the curve (using your phone to call a cab) and there are things that are specific to their population —not wrong or bad, just not very generalizable at scale. VR work for that subgroup, maybe.

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        1. Yudhanjaya Wijeratne  🎭‏ @yudhanjaya 12 May 2020
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          Why has nobody taken the bones of an MMORPG and turned that into a virtual office space? Rich environment and interaction options, customizability, proximity-based communication, ease of use with conventional hardware. All available.

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