Reasonable people may debate whether a social VR app is different enough from, say, a video game to earn a whole new moniker. what reasonable people can not What I don’t agree with is that most people just don’t have regular access to VR yet.

So, not finding enough VR headsets among my group of friends, I turned to a demographic that would likely have a much higher proportion of early adopters: the nerds who work at WIRED.

The Dreaded Company Christmas Party

If the experiment involved spending time with loved ones on vacation in virtual reality, the results are simple: I failed. Cut and dry. But I still wanted to test the technology, so I asked several coworkers to join me for an event everyone is looking forward to: a company Christmas party with their…