I find one of the biggest challenges of YouTube being the editing between presentations slides and videos of the presenter. Being able to look at a stage as if you were in attendance from the audience would alleviate this challenge greatly (at least for me).
Having used a gear VR (briefly), I would not want to try to read text from a slide displayed in it. It would be better to have the video feed of the presenter and a video (or text!) feed of the slides and be able to show both and maybe switch between them -- i could imagine showing one in a big rectangle and the other in a small rectangle.
I'm pretty sure I've watched corporate internal presentations with this style of UI -- it's quite useful.
Well you don't need VR to solve that problem for sure. Either better editing or just recording slides and presenter separately and allow the viewer to switch between them (or see both at the same time) on a regular display would completely solve the issue.