Obama takes a virtual tour of planned presidential center

Former President Barack Obama entered an empty ballroom and strode toward the front of the room, where virtual reality glasses lay on one table and an iPad with an augmented-reality app on another.

The two gizmos would virtually take the former president into the seemingly already real world of the planned Barack Obama Presidential Center.

"Wow! Look at that! Outstanding!" Obama exclaimed Monday as he turned this way and that, honing in on the buildings and grounds. "You know I hate to sound old, like, 'I can't believe it does that.'

"It's like when old people say, 'Can you really talk on this thing?'"

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