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After I became a professor, I was involved with a virtual reality program at my university. Not too long after, I learnedthat the amusement park was working on a virtual reality project. I called the company and explainedthat I was a virtual reality researcher looking for information on it. I kept getting passed on and on, until finally I was connected to the imagineerrunning the team, and I managedto makean appointment to meet him.

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