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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

In 2003 I was lucky enough to see a job that was advertised at Stanford in the department of communications. We all think about VR as a medium today, but in 1999 or 2003, not so much. It’s leveraging head tracking in VR and allowing them to look at patterns and practice their decision-making skills.

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

The system featured a head-mounted display with head tracking that could be used to explore virtual environments or real remote images from a camera — foreshadowing future breakthroughs in teleoperation. In the 90s, virtual reality was the future of entertainment, gaming, socialization and work.

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