| Posted by: jetset at January 8, 2008, 10:46 pm | | Topic: What happens in Vegas..... Forum: Casino Meister |
WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS....
Doesn't necessarily stay there!
When a Canadian team of problem gambling researchers received a less than enthusiastic response to a request for cooperation from Las Vegas gambling organisations, it did the next best thing - taking a irtual Vegas to its research centre for study, according to a report this week in the Toronto newspaper The Globe and Mail.
Researchers at the University of Guelph laboratory are undertaking a study commissioned by the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre into the reasons why many gamblers slip into a trance-like state and bet beyond their means.
A 360-degree panoscope, which allows subjects to take a irtual walk through 17 Las Vegas casinos, and a room with eight programmable slot machines form the University of Guelph's newest research laboratory, designed to investigate the phenomenon.
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