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Future Society

This is Year One—The Dawn of Virtual Reality

By Luke Kingma

Updated Apr 26, 2016 12:51 PM EDT

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Luke Kingma

Former copywriter turned journalist. Crawled through a river of obtrusive display ads, and came out clean on the other side. Now serving as Head of Creative at Futurism.

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