TV isn't a dedicated activity that gets 100% of my attention.
When I have my TV on, I can still cook, flip through catalogs, look at my partner, write emails on my iPad, etc.
When I have my TV on, I can still cook, flip through catalogs, look at my partner, write emails on my iPad, etc.
Nothing sounds more tedious than having a conversation with somebody whose attention is being drawn by something that only one of us can see.
Then you'd be free to chat over the top of the boring bits...
I agree that replicating the full social context of TV will be difficult
Try that with relatives living in three different places across the country.
Typically whatever is seen in VR is repliacted on the monitor, so it's not true that only one person in the room can see what's going on in VR.