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VR Won't Recreate Malls; Furniture Is the Beachhead

The future of e-commerce will not be strolling through virtual malls or porting Fifth Avenue boutiques online; instead VR will be about virtual avatars and talking to products, with furniture (placing a couch in your living room) being the clearest early use case, enabled by technologies like Gaussian splats that make digital twins easy to produce.

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Tobi Lütke

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innovations in virtual reality are going to be much more about virtual avatars, or real people having... It's just like talking to a product.

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Tobi LütkeConversations with Tyler
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:32:50 AM

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