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Podcast: The Future of Everything
Episode: Jeremy Bailenson: Taking a grand tour of the latest in virtual reality
Description: From Oculus Rift to Samsung VR, the era of virtual reality is right around the corner, if not already upon us.
But what are the psychological impacts of VR and what are the best uses of this much-hyped technology — the “killer apps,” as they say?
Jeremy Bailenson is a professor of communication at Stanford and author of the new book, Experience on Demand. He has been studying virtual reality and its effects on humans since 1999. Back then, his dream was to create virtual office spaces that might absolve people of the need to commute every day. T...