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This Restaurant Will Let You Paint With Sauces in VR

VRScout

This Unity-based VR application was built from the ground up just for this activation, with the style and details matching the Zaxby’s environment. And what better way for the chicken chain to stay top of mind with target consumers than by letting them dip their fingers into a virtual world that is not only memorable but also creative.

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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

You’ve got these avatars and these virtual worlds and something just really grabbed me about a future in VR. I was lucky enough to get a job at UC Santa Barbara in a combination social psychology lab and computer science hub , where we were using VR to run experiments, to simulate the social world. This is 1999.

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