The Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC)
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Acknowledgments. The Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC) is a long-term research effort with the contributions of many researchers in L3D. Special thanks go to: Ernesto Arias, whose work and ideas inspired the whole effort and who envisioned and initiated numerous major developments; and Eric Scharff , who in the context of his PhD research, developed essential parts of the first prototypes of the EDC.
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