‘A guy alone in his room playing video games with something strapped to his face: I get it,’ he says. ‘But I’d say it’s the exact opposite. It has the potential to be the most social technology of all time. If you sit around and read books all day that’s considered healthy and productive; if you do the same on the internet or play video games that’s not. You can spend years of your life reading trash, or you could spend them looking at useless things on the internet. Equally, there’s life-enhancing things you could get from both. There shouldn’t be that bias. And if you look at the people who start off not being good at communicating with others, the ones who stay in their rooms all day, look at the reasons they do that – they’re not comfortable talking to people, maybe they just don’t like being fat or don’t like their haircut. With VR, people can represent who they want to be rather than the cards they got dealt.’