26 ~ Wednesday, February 7, 1996 ~ North Shore News

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ALTERED REALITIES fine
the walls in many bright
boxes at Mark Hagenson’s
North Vancouver CD-ROM
store.

Multi-media producers are forg-
ing new terrain in the information
and entertainment world, but it
takes a home-grown self-described
“vidiot" to bring it all together for

the masses.

For now the plugged-in finge
twitchers who frequent Hagenson's
InterAction outlet, located at 120
East 3rd St.. tend to be 20 to 40
year-old men, but the hundreds of
CD-ROM titles carried by the store
should in principle appeal to both

SEXES,

See Multimedia page 27

NEWS phot Brad Ledwidge

INTERACTION CWNER Mark Hagenson shows the VFX1 virtual
raaiity head piece. His North Vancouv2; store specializes in CD-
ROM sales and rentals. He’s been open for about four months in
the Lower Lonsdale area.

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