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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: How Virtual Reality Games Can Impact Society, Encourage Prosperity

Updated: July 11 2013,
Author: barrel fan
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Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Character, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Economic Incentives, Incentive
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Video games give players super powers and transport them to new worlds. How might this technology be used to transform society and your financial prospects? Economics correspondent Paul Solman visits researchers who use virtual reality to study its effects on human behavior in the real world.

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