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Virtual Reality and Yawning
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B2 · Upper-intermediate
Comfortable if you already follow TV news
- 83% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 163 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 15 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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What's that over your eyes, Don? Hold on a second, Yael. This roller coaster is about to go down its final drop. What roller coaster?
Oh, that's a VR headset over your eyes, isn't it? Hoo-wee! Okay, back to the real world. Though I have to say, that ride felt really realistic.
Still, I don't think it'll ever mimic real life completely. And maybe that's our fault. There's a big gap between how we act in virtual reality and how we act in real life, as scientists who did an experiment focused on yawning found out. In real life, when we see someone yawn, we reflexively yawn too. It's called contagious
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