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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

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. I learned how to do the coding.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week — which I was at — by Michael Abrash, who’s chief scientist at Oculus. Alan: I’ve got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me. Justin: Yeah.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week — which I was at — by Michael Abrash, who’s chief scientist at Oculus. Alan: I’ve got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me. Justin: Yeah.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week — which I was at — by Michael Abrash, who’s chief scientist at Oculus. Alan: I’ve got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me. Justin: Yeah.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse's James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

I hadn't experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week -- which I was at -- by Michael Abrash, who's chief scientist at Oculus. Alan: I've got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me. How did that precipitate? Justin: Yeah.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse.io's James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

I hadn't experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week -- which I was at -- by Michael Abrash, who's chief scientist at Oculus. Alan: I've got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me. How did that precipitate? Justin: Yeah.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

Pradeep has been a leader for IBM GBS Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ), He has over 30 years of executive & management experience across a number of industries. He is an Adjunct Professor/Visiting Faculty at number of institutions in Australia, Singapore & India. His work has received various International Awards: [link].