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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

I spoke with him about many topics, like why VR is so good for training (and he told me that his company Strivr has trained more than ONE MILLION Walmart employees in VR ), if it is true that VR is the “ultimate empathy machine”, how much is graphical fidelity important for presence, and of course also about his encounter with Zuck.

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Gacha creators frustrated by lax Second Life oversight

Hypergrid Business

Gachas are vending machines that give customers random items, some more rare and valuable than others. The company said in post last month that they are continually creating new tools and discovering new techniques to solve this problem and have put in place techniques and methods that are bearing fruits.