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Walmart Employees Say VR Training Helped Save Lives During El Paso Shooting

VRScout

Earlier this month, a deadly mass shooting took place at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, claiming the lives of 22 individuals and injuring 24 others. I’ve been to Southaven, and I went to El Paso on Tuesday [Aug. Employees claim active shooter training helped them respond faster to the situation.

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Nuclear Power Plant Uses VR For Control Room Training

VRScout

Just recently, Walmart employees credited their VR training as having helped them stay alive during the horrendous El Paso shooting that took place earlier this month. “Physical simulators are usually fully booked, which doesn’t leave much time for additional testing or evaluations,” said Bergroth.

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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

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. Or how does resolution or latency affect simulator sickness? This is 1999. How does your particular type of avatar affect your well-being?

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