kate rodgers has an eye on virtual business. >> reporter: he grew up with the love of gaming and computers at 30 years old he found the opportunity to combine the two. >> it's a lot of fun actually. the best thing about working in this field is being able to solve creative problems on a daily business. >> nolan is a developer at eon for example, exxonmobil has used eon's virtual reality platforms to train engineers in oil and gas production. >> it's really young, so there's a great potential for new applications. >> the u.s. is on track to spend some $3 billion on v.r. and a.r. this year. as the application of this technology spreads to medicine, education, and other fields. eon has grown from 90 to 150 and is looking to hire 150 additional workers. >> you need people who know programming skills, who knows how to build this rather sophisticated job. >> finding workers with this technology is challenging. that's why eon has teemed up with several colleges across the country to educate. >> we hope universities pick up our curriculum and expand their new work force. >> we're here at training.

kate rodgers checking out all the deals in west nyack, new york >> reporter: retailers definitely haveething to cheer about. new data out from master card showing that retail sales from november 1 gs through christmas eve were up 5% that is the fastest pace since 2011 ecommerce grew by around 18% overall the national retail federation said sales are set to be around $682 billion on the high end ecommerce adobe says making up $100 billion the mall opened here at about 8:00 a.m we were talking to shoppers. a lot of them eager to take advantage of deals bloomingdales, target about 70% off on thousands of items. best buy's discounting some computers by around $150 amazon has a ton of deals online as well. also to christmas of course fell on a monday this year so shoppers had an extra saturday called super saturday this past weekend. we don't quite know how it faired today the day after christmas set to be the fourth busiest of the season as you mentioned, not only are there great deals but a lot of people are coming in to return items. on average around 4% of the gifts people get are retur

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