It has a high barrier to entry, but I I think VRchat and software like it is making a lot of progress towards solving the problems you bring up. Especially with body, eye, and facial expression tracking. Obviously, you still can’t do things that involve physical touch, but keeping track of who’s looking at who and making eye contact is possible. It also lets you make other gestures with your “hands” and arms to communicate. There’s also some work going on to make it possible to play games in a social VR setting.
It has a high barrier to entry, but I I think VRchat and software like it is making a lot of progress towards solving the problems you bring up. Especially with body, eye, and facial expression tracking. Obviously, you still can’t do things that involve physical touch, but keeping track of who’s looking at who and making eye contact is possible. It also lets you make other gestures with your “hands” and arms to communicate. There’s also some work going on to make it possible to play games in a social VR setting.
Here are some examples of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VahuChwc_O8
https://www.reddit.com/r/VRchat/comments/fmj4xe/media_sent_this_to_my_worried_mother_who_watches/
https://preview.redd.it/ij7icgsvx3m31.png?width=768&auto=webp&s=8fff2f8b992552e14e30713a4a0458472f6861b8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVcU6i2k9-M