Daffy and his team decided to make some changes, and they debuted a new version of the game, called I Am Robot, the next year. This one allowed groups of people to don headsets and become genderless robots attending either a ballet recital, a cocktail gathering, or a dance party. The response from participants was surprising. Men in suits who swore they wouldn’t dance became entirely different people in the genderless VR world; a woman with social anxiety who had struggled to enjoy herself at the conference put the headset on and, inhibitions gone, danced and laughed for the first time in
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