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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 VR not as a thing to study in and of itself, but we were using it as a tool to run more rigorous social psych studies. 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.

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