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

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It’s leveraging head tracking in VR and allowing them to look at patterns and practice their decision-making skills. There’s a day in the United States called Holiday Rush. Let it roll means he’s going to keep the original play. We have had a lot of success in sports. What do we train in Walmart?

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

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Regarding what components have been opensourced, Google states that “The open source project provides APIs for head tracking, lens distortion rendering, and input handling. We’ve also included an Android QR code library, so that apps can pair any Cardboard viewer without depending on the Cardboard app.”.