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Some cities, Daejeon and Gwangju among them, also have 4B-themed offline communities where followers can socialize through sports, book clubs or skills-building workshops.

But without the pandemic’s trifecta of urgency—keeping people healthy, saving the restaurant industry, and letting people socialize—cities have found it hard to effectively revise and maintain the programs they quickly put in place in 2020.

He’s been like a surrogate guardian, something Kenneth, who was orphaned at age 10, has badly needed, even if the only person he’s been willing to socialize with is Bert.

A draft plan completed the following year envisioned a “downtown” for the 1,200 units of veteran housing to be built on the campus, a place where “veterans can socialize at a fitness center or cafe, participate in events in a public square, attend outdoor concerts, coordinate a volunteer effort, develop employment opportunities, visit a library, grab a bike to ride around the property or make plans for going to a movie at one of the campus theaters.”

Donning AR glasses could interfere with how people socialize in the physical world, making them feel less present, said Jeremy Bailenson, a Stanford University professor who founded the college’s virtual human interaction lab.