AR and VR are inherently antisocial technologies, though. They both isolate you from the world.
Only sorta. What you're really doing is taking the real world and reducing to an electronic simulacrum of the real world.
We see this happen even when AR isn't involved. Just looking through a window introduces a separation between you and the real world. That separation matters a whole lot to people, and changes how people think about, perceive, and react to what they see.
If it’s the same, but you can do hand gestures to interact with UI that appears and disappears does that change things?
Maybe you think so given your example of a window. Indoors is still the real world to me.
It’s adding a software UX layer on top that could be more natural than the UX via small displays.
I just want better devices that help or augment my current senses (like with current things like sunglasses/hearing aids/etc things like: I have astigmatism and a reduction of headlight "starring" would be welcome. A zoom feature for reading small print. (my eyes suck can't you tell? :) Thermal scan and enemy detection a'la predator.
Thats not being antisocial at all, and I don't replace in-person social events with virtual ones anymore than someone who jumps into Fortnite with their friends on Friday nights.
What I'm responding to is the idea (mostly from the likes of Meta and various hard-core advocates) that VR will become ubiquitous. That means it replacing actual in-person communication.
Reducing everyone to a datastream is an antisocial tendency. If that's done as an alternative to not interacting with someone at all, it's the more social alternative. If that's done as an alternative to interacting with people in the real world, that's antisocial.
It's a bit like using video conferencing. Many workplaces are continuing to use video conferencing in the office even when everyone is in the office. That's an antisocial use. Using it to bring people together who cannot be physically together is a pro-social use.
AR/VR is designed to separate you from the physical world and reduce everything to a datastream. That's what I meant by "antisocial". But I did ignore a couple of tons of nuance in saying that.
As a natural introvert, it is one of the best things to happen to me, and the most social I have ever been in my life.