Room OS

Room OS (2015) was our first spatial computing environment.

It grew out of making the Research gallery (2015), a poster of group projects that could be lasered to bring up details.

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The first "Hello world"-like application in the system was Bouncy balls (2015).

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Tile files (2015) was an early idea for spatializing the programs themselves.

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The past is always with us (2015) displayed the room's view of itself.

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In the Dynamic Library (2015), we could laser-browse through books.

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The urge to improve the library led to our second spatial computing environment, Hypercard in the World (2015), and development continued from there.