Clicking on a Room Item caused MacroMind Director to command a laserdisc sequence of 3D rendered fly-throughs to run video signals feeding one of the RadiusTV inputs which pumped 16-bit digitized video into the Director movie via Lingo X-objects - with no performance hit to the CPU.

Keen observers will note additional items in the scene don't match my previous description... I say, Never Underestimate the Power of the Producer: we had an executive order-change come down from above.
Yes, the specification really did change halfway through an already massively compressed project. Older and wiser heads with deeper pockets than I squelched any demo of the revolutionary Radius effects processor. The initial idea was to incorporate amazing real-time features available only through this now (ill-fated) product called PopEye. Great swaths of support materials for each of the workstations had to be chopped out as each would have demonstrated an aspect of new capability. As we were halfway through the six weeks of this project, all the fly throughs were setup and just finishing their render stages - there was no time left for starting over - so we re-wired the demo storyline and focused the Director shell to the remaining topics.

The fly through for each flight path was rendered by a stack of headless Macintosh II FX controlled by Timbuktu.A good deal of the models were done by Joe "Pop Rocket" Sparks for modeling and rendering in Paracomp's Swivel3D + MacroMind Three-D and took several weeks at an average of 50 minutes per frame. Each of those frame-by-frame image sequence files were then dumped to betacam-SP for overnight delivery to LA to get a laserdisc mastered, so it could be over-nighted and we could start plugging in the frame numbers for laserdisc control to confirm what had been sent off several days previous. And then again...

So the vice, magnifying glass, stellar mobile and other scattered bits remained mysterious dormant objects and why there are so many modelers involved with this quick, if anxiety-prone, gig.
For example: the Pixel Report was a faux Weather Channel report for the Entertainment section. Here a host with pointer describes the {pioneering 32-bit} hues of locales on a map with some PopEye image zoom-and-pan magic to show what video production could be done. PopEye was a three-board NuBus monster doing the first smooth real-time computer controlled A-B video-style transition we at Form and Function had seen on a personal computer. It cross-faded 32-bit images, scaled huge images smoothly and quickly, sub-pixel blending, anti-aliasing... intoxicating stuff for the time!
Alas, Form and Function still has one in our ever-expanding Museum Wing of Archaic Technology!

It was late nights for everyone burning midnight oil every step of the way clear down to setting up the projection system at MacWorld Boston. Our demo was the featured production given a grand central projection screen and small mini-theater and I can recall the gritted teeth of the floor show managers as we struggled to get the system to work up until just a few minutes before the showfloor opened to the public - but whip that puppy into submission we did and all was cheering throughout the land. The crew from Specular 3D watching us struggle were gob-smacked at the Rube Goldberg setup that was conjuring virtual reality before them - and floored all over again learning we'd done it all in 45 days.