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Even my grandparents can have a chat over the top of the boring part of a programme or eat their dinner whilst watching the news.

Nothing sounds more tedious than having a conversation with somebody whose attention is being drawn by something that only one of us can see.

Couldn't the whole family enter the same VR environment? Why limit it to just yourself?

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

Because they could just share a screen in real reality?

Indeed. Much less hassle, much less expense, many fewer tradeoffs, and much more social.

Iff they're in the same place.

Try that with relatives living in three different places across the country.

> somebody whose attention is being drawn by something that only one of us can see.

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.