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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

Or Unreal if that’s your language. One of the teams we work with is the Arkansas Razorbacks. In Arkansas, there is the largest company in the world. Brock, the head of training from Walmart, decided to come to the Arkansas Razorback football office. For four years, I stayed at UCSB and I learned how to program VR.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

I’ve got to try this thing called Vasco, which is a scent machine that mounts to the bottom of your VR headset that you can program — so, you program in Unity or Unreal. I reached out, grab a cup of coffee. I smelled it, smelled like coffee. You go and you look at the grass; it smells like grass.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

I’ve got to try this thing called Vasco, which is a scent machine that mounts to the bottom of your VR headset that you can program — so, you program in Unity or Unreal. I reached out, grab a cup of coffee. I smelled it, smelled like coffee. You go and you look at the grass; it smells like grass.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?'s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

I've got to try this thing called Vasco, which is a scent machine that mounts to the bottom of your VR headset that you can program -- so, you program in Unity or Unreal. I worked at a steel mill one time, and that was the backend of the IT wave was hitting that place, and that was an industrial complex in the middle of nowhere, Arkansas.

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