Innovation

One Man’s Quest to Build the Perfect Near-Death Simulation

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Virtual reality could allow people to glimpse the experience of death like never before. And that could be a very good thing.

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Why should the benefits of dying be limited to the dead (or nearly dead)?

That’s the question that Mel Slater hasn’t been able to get out of his head.

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