Virtual classrooms and virtual activities have waxed and waned, with most focusing on fostering learning in the cognitive domain and, realistically, most becoming rapidly discontinued. But social virtual realities (SVR) are uniquely "social," so what about interpersonal skills? This article describes the authors' experiences exploring SVR as a learning environment for supporting the development of health care providers' interpersonal skills associated with the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) process. Their experiences suggest that while it is possible to create such a learning environment and experience, and that there are some significant benefits to doing so, the costs, especially in terms of production and implementation complexity as well as learner overhead, simply do not justify the benefits, yet.... (Contains 5 figures and 1 table.)