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Thus, embedding sensing technologies in virtual Economic Affairs, the Province of Noord-Brabant
reality headsets is a way in which one can take and the municipalities of Tilburg and Gilze and Rijen.
advantage of combining two types of powerful Part of this research falls under the Digital Society
technologies. Agenda of the Association of Universities in the
Netherlands. The usual exculpations apply.
7. CONCLUSION
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