During COVID-19 social isolation, I keep thinking about this speech Mark Zuckerberg gave in 2017 at Facebook’s Oculus Connect conference. “The reality is we all have limits to our reality, places we can’t go, people we can’t see, things we can’t do.” http://uploadvr.com/oculus-connect-6-mark-zuckerberg/

There’s billions invested annually in this bet by Mark Zuckerberg in which Facebook hires and enriches hundreds of people building VR tech. And it seems likely the bet pays off sooner if the world gets worse. I don’t want VR to take off because the physical world gets worse.

Fair to think of VR as “antisocial” if it is the opposite of the act of being physically “social”. In March 2020 being “social” started to mean roaming the outside world in fear that you’re going to die, or hurt someone else, by coming within six physical feet of another human.