> Alternatively, it'd be interesting (albeit again difficult and confining too) to have 2 or 3 folks working on the same desktop. Get a 8k 85 inch TV, with a lo

> Alternatively, it'd be interesting (albeit again difficult and confining too) to have 2 or 3 folks working on the same desktop. Get a 8k 85 inch TV, with a long desk in front of it, and set it up with multi-pointer-x or some such, and let everyone work on the same shared surface. Just a bit over a week ago I was pair coding with a coworker over a live share VS Code session for an hour or so when I suddenly realized that they must have been talking the whole time and I couldn't hear them (which turned out to be an audio issue on my end). We had apparently gone from "both of us talking and hearing fine while pair coding on the same set of files" to "I could speak but not hear him and only see his cursor and typing, and even then only if I was looking at the same place as him at the same time". Part of why we were actually able to be somewhat productive for the period of time since I had lost audio (maybe half an hour or so?) was that he was non-verbally communicating incredibly well just with his editing; I might be writing a line of code, and then suddenly I'd see that he paused what he was doing and highlighted some other line, and I'd look and say "Oh! Good catch, I forgot to take into account <something related to the line of code he highlighted". I suspect that having something like a live share session that I was using but sitting everyone in the same room would honestly give the same or better results; I think you're on to something that this sort of social interaction in the same room could be incredibly interesting for everyone involved, but I'm not convinced that you need any sort of special virtual working space with avatars _or_ a giant monitor for everyone to be on at the same time. Honestly, thinking about this is already giving me some ideas for hackathon-type stuff where collaboration can be encouraged by having a team share exactly one copy of the repository to all work on at once rather than everyone going off in to their silos and working on separate components.