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The Components of The Spatial Web

​There are four high-level components to the Spatial Web. 

  • The PlanetBlue Browser

  • The markup language

  • The scene server

  • And the Spatial Container

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The Spatial Browser works in a similar way to a web browser but with greatly expanded functionality.

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Like a web browser  there’s only one browser needed for visiting any of the billions of spatial scenes possible.

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The browser is written in Unity, which means it can behave in a very similar way to an online game. It enables fly-over and immersive rendering of scenes. It supports MR, VR, 3-D, and 2-D  and the upcoming Apple Spatial headset experiences.

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The spatial markup language (SPML) is used to defines the scene and the objects in the scene. Elements in the scene may be .obj, .usd and native SPML surfaces.

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Like a web server, the scene server runs on existing Web servers or may be hosted in the cloud. It’s a serverless model which allows for massive scalability and billions of instances.

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The Spatial Container is the atomic unit of the Spatial Web. It contains multiple  layers which define the components of a digital twin, an object or a scene. It’s been designed with First Principles thinking and stored in JSON.

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The container is recursive and horizontally linked so there’s an unlimited number of containers possible. It's sparse, so only the needed components exist for each object.

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You can think of it as web pages, databases, blockchain, programs, AI behaviors, 3D objects, USD scenes, all blended into a simple and elegant JSON array.

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The Spatial Container is what makes the entire world work seamlessly. It’s a huge step forward in simplicity of design. ​

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