
We worked in a VR office for a few months and didn't totally hate it
Thanks to lockdown-related travel restrictions, our deputy tech editor Joseph Volpe never had a chance to meet his East Coast co-workers...so he hatched a plan to do it virtually.
He convinced tech reporters Brenda Stolyar and Alex Perry to don Quest 2 virtual reality headsets and join him in Spatial, an app that lets you collaborate and remotely work within a virtual office. Things didn't go exactly as planned.
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