Virtual Reality Is Missing Its Moment… Again

VR missed several opportunities, but this is the biggest yet

Jamie Cohen
OneZero
Published in
9 min readApr 3, 2020

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A man wearing a virtual reality headset against a nature background surrounded by a circle of colorful dots.
Photo: Vasilina Popova/Getty Images

TThe first time I put on my headset and walked around in VRChat, the avatar-filled virtual reality multiworld, I accidentally interrupted a small gathering of friends. They were meeting in a small cabin on one of the hundreds of worlds hosted on the platform. As far as I could tell, this…

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Jamie Cohen
OneZero

Digital culture expert and meme scholar. Cultural and Media Studies PhD. Internet studies educator: social good, civic engagement and digital literacies