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That’s super weird. I’d look for a new job real quick if I was required to do stand up with be goggles in. WTF is wrong with people…

Rapport is built through authenticity and vulnerability, not fucking avatars.

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Nobody is forcing us to use this tech. If we all happened to agree that it was annoying or "super weird" then we would just opt out.

Fact is, that for now it feels valuable enough for us to keep using it (more so for social 'hangouts' than for things like stand-ups, which we still do via Zoom and where we can be as authentic and vulnerable as we like)

How many people participate? Doesn’t seem like it would scale outside a small group. Once you get past that size, it becomes a clique and thus corrosive to team building. A small group will have a wonderful time, everyone else will resent them. The company will then crumble or become something different entirely

voice calls don't scale to beyond a few people either

> The company will then crumble

Watch out guys, VR destroys companies!

Avatars may provide a better way to express authenticity and vulnerability compared to text or a video call.

“You can get to know me better by the mask I put on”

…and you don’t put on a mask over text or video call?

Neither authenticity nor vulnerability are all that important (or I'd argue, even welcome) in a business context.

"I'm not sure how to do this... could you please help me out?"

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