Multiple points of view. This region has a Point of View (POV) menu, triggered from the triangular area in the lower-left of the window. The menu shows you several points of view of this same region, all of them "active" in that you see real-time action happen in the menu frames. If you select one, your point of view changes to the one previewed but you stay in the same region. Microcosm was a "2.5D" world in that the user's point of view does not move as the character moves, but the regions had 3D geometry, making this POV feature possible.
