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Ang Lee

ourteen years ago, two members of the US Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, released a comprehensive study on the effects of low-fidelity video on human psychomotor performance, behaviour, and subjective perception. As robotic technologies become increasingly common in the fields of space exploration, search and rescue missions, national defense, health care, and, of course, the entertainment industry, the lab’s investigation set out to determine—on behalf of the American military’s so-called Future Combat System—the

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