> the upcoming, yet unnamed headset will offer “the ability to now have eye contact in virtual reality, have your face be tracked so that your avatar is not jus

> the upcoming, yet unnamed headset will offer “the ability to now have eye contact in virtual reality, have your face be tracked so that your avatar is not just this still thing, if you smile, or you frown, or you pout, whatever your expression is, to have that actually in real time translate to your avatar.” It will never have the fidelity of a simple video stream. To make a virtual reality, you have to shut out the real reality, which necessarily means something covering your face (well, more specifically, your eyes - but we are a long way from being able to do VR with contact lenses). In shutting out real reality, VR is an absolutist experience, you are either in it, or not, and if you are in it you cannot experience anything else (like drink a coffee, jot on a notepad, answer the phone) unless imported into that VR. For these reasons, general use VR/AR is DOA.