It's not just sci-fi anymore, virtual reality for work is here.

Mixed reality for work is here, and companies everywhere are using them both to transform

how they operate.

Architects are able to walk through buildings and mixed reality before they're even built.

Co-workers from opposite ends of the earth are working shoulder to shoulder in VR spaces,

and all sorts of workers from pilots to underwater welders are getting trained in a virtual environment

that's safer and more cost effective.

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Hollywood's got a long tradition of making movies about huge stuff crashing into earth.

There's Armageddon.

You want to send these boys into space fine?

I'm sure they'll make good astronauts.

They don't know jack about drilling.

There's deep impact, and there's the most recent entry to the canon, don't look up.

You cannot go around saying to people that there's a hundred percent chance that they're

going to die.

But this kind of thing isn't just relegated to science fiction.

Our science editor Brian Resnick says this is a problem that scientists and even government

officials have been taking seriously for decades.

Congress actually got this huge wake-up call when it comes to celestial objects smashing

into planets.

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