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Touch grass: How video games are replicating real-world environments

WBUR | By Dean Russell
Published December 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM MST

Video games have been trying to replicate the real world for decades.

In this report from Endless Thread‘s Dean Russell, we find that today, video game environments and technologies are being used to re-create and impact the real world as well.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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