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While designing rooms in your home, watching porn and playing some of the most immersive games we’ve ever seen are snagging headlines, it’s the instances of virtual reality uses we haven’t explored that may be the most interesting. Researchers at Stanford University believe they can tap the power of VR to conquer challenges that don’t involve save points and extra lives — like discrimination. “Feeling prejudice by walking a mile in someone else’s shoes is what VR was made for,” says Jeremy Bailenson, director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab. These diversity-training simulations could prove beneficial in countless ways and so far have attracted…

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