Turning Strangers Into Friends In Virtual Reality: VR Social Architectures
This blog post is a call to action for the social VR platforms to get creative around helping strangers connect and become friends, what I call the social architecture. With the rise of remote work and other changes in society, we've been in a multi-decade crises in third places that can help people to connect (this is one of the reasons I invented coworking , for example). Advances in social VR can help give healthy outlets for people to turn strangers into friends - I think that will be a positive thing for the world if done well. “This blog post is a call to action for the social VR platforms to get creative around helping strangers connect and become friends, what I call the social architecture.” Horizon's Soap Stone Comedy Club I've been personally experimenting with social VR the last few years, through Rec Room , VRChat , and Horizons . I was never into 3D shared worlds like Second Life before, but there is something intriguing about how embodied VR can be whil...
