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> As far as viewing with other people, this doesn’t seem like an insurmountable challenge.

This can also be achieved with 3rd party apps. On Quest, this is already a reality with Big Screen.

I wonder who would actually do that. The only reason I watch tv is to socialize with my family. I think if we were just sitting on the couch all wearing VR googles it would ruin the entire use case for watching stuff together. Surely, some geeks, once or twice.

The use case is watching something with people who are half a world away I think, not with people who are physically present with you.

I wonder if that "theatre experience" would be a significant improvement for most people. I already do this with friends remotely by jumping on discord and hitting play on whatever service we're using at the same time. There more more automatically in-sync solutions out there for sure, but I can't see doing this in VR being more than a novelty that wears out after a few sessions.

You should actually try it before coming to that conclusion.

The main difference between discord, zoom or any other flat viewing experience vs VR is immersion. Words don’t do it justice, you have to experience it yourself.

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