# Virtually Real - What is real?

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Podcast: [The Collators](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-collators-7459521)
Published: 2025-11-24T13:59:00+00:00
Episode link: https://thecollators.com/s1e7
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## Resource

In this episode of The Collators, Mark and Howard explore the promises and pitfalls of virtual reality. Not as a gaming gimmick, but as a tool for intelligence, analysis, and decision-making. From Minority Report-style data walls to simple post-it notes, they ask whether VR and data visualisation actually help us see the world more clearly, or just distract us with prettier illusions. Transcript, shownotes and more are available from https://thecollators.com/s1e7

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