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Speaker 1: Thousands of visitors are expected in Hamilton today, attracting a

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Speaker 1: big international crowd. This year, the Germans are coming for

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Speaker 1: the first time apparently. I'm sure there have been one

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Speaker 1: or two Germans who have attended before, but there is

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Speaker 1: some contingent coming. Former sheep farmer Reece Gardner is going

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Speaker 1: to be at the event with his VR driving simulation

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Speaker 1: company and he's with us now.

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Speaker 2: Hey Reese, Yeah, morning, bron How are you good?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? You excited about today? What do you think

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Speaker 1: the farmers will have their wallets out?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I'm not sure. There's a lot

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Speaker 2: of rain overnight, so maybe everyone's keen to sort of

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Speaker 2: get cracking this morning and get into it. I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: What is the you've obviously there now? Is the weather

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Speaker 1: being quite bad? How bad overnight? How much rain? We're

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Speaker 1: talking lots.

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Speaker 2: I drove down from Walkland last night and kind of

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Speaker 2: a monsoon it seemed, so I don't know, it's probably

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Speaker 2: it felt like sort of Gimbridge kind of weather last night.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm not sure. It seems to happen some years,

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Speaker 2: doesn't it. It just gets it just gets really wet hair.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what are you offering at Field Days this year.

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Speaker 2: So we're bringing some of the some of the reality

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Speaker 2: stuff that we've been doing in the States with ATVs.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and what it to explain what that is.

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Speaker 2: I guess sort of virtuality is a way that you

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Speaker 2: can that you make mistakes and not get hurt. I'm

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Speaker 2: one of those sort of people that struggles to learn

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Speaker 2: from people telling me what to do. I kind of

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Speaker 2: need to do it myself. Often I'll be told what

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Speaker 2: to do and then and then kind of do the

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Speaker 2: opposite and then realize what I was supposed to do,

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Speaker 2: what the sort of expert or the experienced person is suggesting.

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Speaker 1: You learned by doing so you're I think I've seen

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Speaker 1: you in one of your exhibitions. Your virtual reality headsets

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Speaker 1: basically allow you to do the driving the truck or

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Speaker 1: the tractor or whatever it is in a controlled environment

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Speaker 1: and then hopefully go out and do it better in

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Speaker 1: the real world.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. What we're doing now is recreating sort of actual

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Speaker 2: accidents or near misses and actual locations and putting those

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Speaker 2: together into scenarios where someone sort of makes a decision

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Speaker 2: or presents the situation and gives them a chance to

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Speaker 2: make a decision and then experience the outcomes of that.

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Speaker 1: How does what does the experiencing the outcomes feel like?

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Speaker 1: Obviously not like a real accident, but does it simulate that.

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Speaker 2: What we do is you make the decision from the

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Speaker 2: in the cab of the vehicle or whatever that vehicle

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Speaker 2: happens to be, and then sometimes we'll shift you outside

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Speaker 2: that vehicle so that you can see how that decision

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Speaker 2: is going to play out.

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Speaker 1: Interesting stuff, Reese. I appreciate your time this morning. I

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Speaker 1: have a great date Field Days. It's Reese Garden, a

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