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May 2018
14m 29s

Rethinking Virtual Reality

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About this episode

"Virtual reality" might seem like a new concept, but are we already living inside a virtual world? 

How do we balance spending time in these technological worlds versus the "real" world? 

Plus, we explore questioning the nature of our own reality, and riff on the idea of creating a virtual world with language. 

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