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 							<h2>Welcome to Virtual Acoustics</h2>
 							<p>Virtual Acoustics (VA) is a <b>real-time auralization framework</b> for scientific research<br />
 							providing modules and interfaces for experiments and demonstrations.<br />
-							<i>It is open source and fully controllable enabling reproducible research</i></p>
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