Acknowledgments
We wish to thank first and foremost our friends and family, who gave up seeing us as we produced this work. We also thank our home institutions, The National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the Desert Research Institute, and Valparaiso University for their support of our efforts. We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge the fantastic work of all the application developers whose work we describe in this volume and without whom this book would be impossible. Indeed, without them the genre of VR would not exist as we know it. Finally we would like to thank all of our colleagues in the field and our co-workers, from whom we have both learned so much and been so inspired.
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