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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

Or Unreal if that’s your language. In 2019 in El Paso, Texas, there was a horrific event where a gunman killed many people, just walked into a Walmart, and killed many people. When I say a customer service line, you’re getting calls 24/7 , because we’re working with a huge food chain in Australia called Wally’s.

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