There is another answer to living close by. If VR and AR one day meet the promises of old sci-fi, distance will be less of an issue. It will be a dramatic impro

There is another answer to living close by. If VR and AR one day meet the promises of old sci-fi, distance will be less of an issue. It will be a dramatic improvement over phone calls and FaceTime / zoom. Unfortunately, the current form factor of affordable units (sub $500 standalone units like the quest2) intimidates nearly everyone including techies on HN; most people refuse to even try it. Of the few brave people willing to try it, most don’t go beyond 10-15 minutes. The other major problem is affordability. While it isn’t a problem for many people in our bubble, most people will balk at spending $2000 or more on bleeding edge tech. AR and VR currently are at the same stage of personal computers in the late 1970s, only a few die hard techies like me can see its current and future potential