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Concepts in Rooms

• Purpose
  • Show off new aquisition (Open House)
  • Get experience using it

• Collaboration - group project for SCV members

• Multiple spaces - seamless passage between

• Organizing framework - outside space with houses

• Scalable

• Vision of rich world

• Important science fiction portrayals
  • Neuromancer, William Gibson, 1984 (coined term `cyberspace')
  • Snowcrash, Neil Stephenson, 1992

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