Tiktok has demonstrated the upper levels of dissociation possible on a phone. The logical next step for the app purveyors of the world is a device that affixes itself to your face and keep reality out entirely.

I sat with my long distance gf to watch TV together, and genuinely forgot that we weren’t in the same room. It was magic. Taking the goggles off and instantly going back to being alone in my house was an eye opener; I realised that while VR is not as good as really being there, it’s so much better than a video chat for feeling close.