Imagine a new world - one that changes the face of education, research, and development. 

• a research project that lets you include the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as a partner without leaving your own lab;

• a guitar player in Seattle, a drummer in Moscow, a bassist in Spokane and a singer in Pullman creating music simultaneously, music that can exist only when joined via a virtual medium;

• taking a virtual hike up Mount Rainier with each petal and leaf rendered in perfect clarity;

• examining the Spokane Library's page from the Guttenberg Bible without fear of fading, tearing or leaving fingerprints;

• teaching a class filled with students from three different Inland Northwest universities, all of whom are attending in hologram form, with cameras and microphones that automatically focus on you;

• a virtual museum of a Native American tribe that can be toured at any time, revealing the culture and history of an entire people to visitors thousands of miles away;

• working in real time with patient data from one of the most wired hospital networks in the nation;

• Digital video lectures, events, etc. collected in a searchable archive available to multiple disciplines and multiple institutions, reducing the need to recreate the same materials in different environments. 

Imagine what happens when ideas and technology come together!  Imagine VPnet...