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I like to say, if it's too dangerous, too difficult, or too expensive to do the training in the real world, why wouldn't you do it in a virtualworld? If it's really too dangerous to do that training in the real world, why wouldn't you create it in a virtualworld? Allan: It's relatively small still.
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And so we can take those objects that are modeled in a CAD system and pull them into a head-mounteddisplay -- the Microsoft Hololens -- and see those 3D models align with your physical space. When you're in VR mode, it just kind of darkens out the world and goes into VR mode. Greg: Yeah. That's interesting.
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