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Text: Perhaps one of the few silver linings of the otherwise awful coronavirus pandemic was that it provided a boost for the narrative undergirding the hottest virtual reality stocks. With government agencies mandating shelter-in-place policies, going the VR route represented an alternative to socialization.
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