In a world of remote work, virtual reality is still pretty much MIA
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English - March 10, 2020 11:12 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Host Molly Wood speaks to Adi Robertson, a senior reporter at The Verge, about how virtual reality initially promised us the future, and now that we need it to work remotely during the coronavirus outbreak, it still has very little to offer. Robertson says the equipment is just too heavy to successfully work from home. And then there’s the “goofiness factor.”