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  • A visual showing how Internet of Bodies technologies may surround and influence us in the future, illustration by Giorgia Lupi

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    Internet of Bodies: Our Connected Future

    Jul 29, 2021

    Information designer Giorgia Lupi, RAND's inaugural artist-in-residence, produced a creative piece that explores questions about how the human body—and society on the whole—may be transformed through Internet of Bodies technology.

  • People wearing virtual reality headsets watch films at a newly opened VR cinema by Er Dong Pictures in Beijing, China, March 27, 2019, photo by Lin Hui/Beijing Youth Daily/Reuters

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    China Is Organizing the VR Industry. The United States Could Do the Same

    Aug 23, 2021

    Given the potential value of virtual reality as a tool—and the increasing competition from China—the United States could focus more energy on advancing VR in a coordinated fashion. Otherwise, America risks missing an opportunity to excel internationally with a valuable and broadly applicable emerging technology.

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