Matrix-style virtual worlds 'a few years away'

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Matrix-style virtual worlds 'a few years away'

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Are supercomputers on the verge of creating Matrix-style simulated realities? Michael McGuigan at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, says that virtual worlds realistic enough to be mistaken for the real thing are just a few years away.

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