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82 // Spatial computing with Yiliu Shen-Burke

Metamuse

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The Social Aspects of VR Headsets

People feel often uncomfortable wearing headsets because they're in an immersive environment that's cutting them off a little bit from their surroundings. Even if you're alone in your home, that's very weird. I think somehow at some low primal level, we're not that comfortable with that. And throw in now the social side of it, which is putting on one of these headsets in a setting like an office or on a plane or anywhere else and the reaction of others around you as well. So first of all, there's a wide range of how comfortable and uncomfortable both the users and people around feel with people wearing a headset.

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