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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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I spoke with him about many topics, like why VR is so good for training (and he told me that his company Strivr has trained more than ONE MILLION Walmart employees in VR ), if it is true that VR is the “ultimate empathy machine”, how much is graphical fidelity important for presence, and of course also about his encounter with Zuck.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.08.25): Lots of new VR content previewed, Sony acquires Insomniac, Matrix 4 in the works and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The solution is part of Mediapipe, the framework to create machine-learning-based solutions , and offers 21-points hand tracking on your mobile phone. Developer Phasedragon has developed a VR experience where you hold a virtual smartphone in your hand. Decentraland, the blockchain-based virtual world, is performing pretty well.

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