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-The Lab Renderer
+# The Lab Renderer
 
-Valve’s VR renderer used in The Lab (Valve’s VR launch title for the HTC Vive). 
+Valve’s VR renderer used in The Lab (Valve’s VR launch title for the HTC Vive). 
 
 This is the set of scripts and shaders that drove rendering in The Lab. It is a forward renderer with support for up to 18 dynamic shadowing lights in a single pass with MSAA enabled, and it included the Adaptive Quality system that dynamically adjusts rendering resolution to maintain framerate in VR.