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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Tricking the brain with transformative virtual reality

Updated: December 18 2013,
Author: barrel jason
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Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Entrepreneurs
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Want to have a just-like-real-life fantasy experience without leaving your living room? Virtual reality technology is already employed by certain industries, but economics correspondent Paul Solman considers the variety of applications it could have in the consumer market in the future.

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