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virtual"},{"startTime":700.868,"endTime":706.218,"body":"productions is extremely special and so"},{"startTime":700.868,"endTime":706.218,"body":"I'm very grateful to be helping to push"},{"startTime":706.218,"endTime":712.428,"body":"that medium and I really hope that we"},{"startTime":706.218,"endTime":712.428,"body":"will get more films shot in VRChat, but"},{"startTime":712.428,"endTime":716.058,"body":"also greater because of We Met In Virtual"},{"startTime":712.428,"endTime":716.058,"body":"Reality, if I'm allowed to say that."},{"startTime":716.338,"endTime":716.578,"body":"Yeah."},{"startTime":716.578,"endTime":718.138,"body":"Well, thank you so much for the time."},{"startTime":718.178,"endTime":722.048,"body":"This is an interesting starting point"},{"startTime":718.178,"endTime":722.048,"body":"in that conversation about how people"},{"startTime":722.048,"endTime":724.838,"body":"are gonna present themselves in the"},{"startTime":722.048,"endTime":724.838,"body":"years to come, so I appreciate this"},{"startTime":724.838,"endTime":728.248,"body":"time and yeah, there's gonna be a"},{"startTime":724.838,"endTime":728.248,"body":"lot of people discovering VRChat"},{"startTime":728.268,"endTime":729.588,"body":"in the next couple weeks I think."},{"startTime":729.588,"endTime":731.118,"body":"So, uh, good luck."},{"startTime":731.178,"endTime":732.748,"body":"And we'll see what you do next."},{"startTime":733.408,"endTime":734.338,"body":"Thank you so much."},{"startTime":734.338,"endTime":736.658,"body":"Yeah, I really, really"},{"startTime":734.338,"endTime":736.658,"body":"appreciate the conversation."},{"startTime":737.018,"endTime":739.688,"body":"Yeah, please go see the film"},{"startTime":737.018,"endTime":739.688,"body":"and tell us what you think."}]}