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World Service,4 mins

Can virtual reality take people back home?

Boston Calling

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Many unauthorised immigrants in the US cannot go back home to visit family for fear they couldn’t return. So two young immigrants here in the US are using virtual reality to reunite friends and loved ones. Zaidee Stavely reports. (Image: In Mexico City, a grandmother, who has not seen her relatives living in the US for nearly two decades, “visits” them through a virtual reality video made by the Family Reunions Project. Credit: Courtesy of Family Reunions Project)

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