See how far virtual reality will actually go
Virtual Reality. It's Unreal!
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Paul Solmon | PBS NewsHour
To See how far virtual reality will actually go, we visited Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab.
Virtual reality is basically two things: tracking your body movements and sending new information to your eyes and ears based on those movements.
V.R. is already used professionally for everything from vehicle design, to flight simulation, to surgical training, to psychotherapy.
We show how absolutely transformative this new technology might be. But every new capability that people achieve can go either way, and no amount of technical prowess can make people better.
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