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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

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 build hardware because back in the late ’90s, we weren’t using beautiful inside-out tracking systems. For four years, I stayed at UCSB and I learned how to program VR.

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