The FDA also is exploring improved diagnostic techniques using virtual patients.

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They get in the way of finding new management techniques for the virtual workplace.

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Beaming combines both robotics and virtual reality and tries to improve on flatscreen display-based video conferencing techniques.

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Projects are underway to use 3D graphics techniques to enable multiple users to share the same space in a virtual world.

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