Richland Library offering empathy lab to experience virtual reality of a refugee

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) – The Richland County Library is offering the “My Life Experience Empathy Lab” that uses virtual reality to offer the change for patrons to try on someone else’s life.

January’s Lab is a segment on immigration which transports the viewer into the heart of the refugee crisis