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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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They get haptic feedback while they’re using the chainsaw and they understand viscerally the link between deforestation and using non-recycled paper or not recycling. It’s leveraging head tracking in VR and allowing them to look at patterns and practice their decision-making skills. Why this is counterproductive?

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