
Sean Everett reflects on uncomfortable chairs after a long travel day in Seattle, arguing that lying on your back could be a better posture for VR and AR meetings. He calls for disrupting chairs entirely.
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Good morning. I'm out here in Seattle for the next couple weeks. Any listeners out here, would love to make your acquaintance. Former colleagues, let's meet up. Let's see what's going on and see if we can't ingenuity this thing. So one thing I wanted to talk about. So I spent all day traveling yesterday, a couple cars, a couple planes, restaurant, basically for 15, 16 hours straight. I was just sitting down. Just sitting in a chair. And I think we've all, as a species, because all 8 billion of us sit in chairs every day, that we just sort of take it for granted. Like, this is the best we can do for the human body and our species is a chair where you're essentially bent in half, your knees are bent, your arms are outstretched. You're just really uncomfortable. I mean, imagine if every night you went to bed and you slept in a chair instead of a bed. Why isn't there something more comfortable? Not even a recliner, but when you think about what you do when you really feel rested, you're laying all the way out. So, you know, as we think about like our VR future, AR future, we go in meetings, we're sitting down. I mean, I just wonder if the least amount of friction in the most comfortable position is not in a seated place, but actually laying down on your back with the glasses on. And you can be shown as if you're seated in a meeting around a conference room, but your body is actually in a more comfortable position. So yeah, I think we need to disrupt chairs, honestly, and figure out some better mechanism for human beings to be more comfortable and take care of their bodies because it feels horrible. We could do better than this. All right, let's go. It's almost Q4.










