Over the Reality Web3 Manifesto

We believe that AR is the future of human interaction with information. There is a technological trajectory in the way we interact with information: we started with oral history and pictographs, we invented scripture and the printing press, we built mainframes and terminals, then desktops, laptops, and currently smartphones, our primary means to interact with information, with over 6.5 hours on average staring at a portable 2D screen. The next logical step in the way we interact with information is AR: currently with smartphones, soon with smart glasses, and finally with chips planted directly in our visual cortex.

But why is that?

Simply because our brains evolved to process spatial data, we live in a 3D world, and two-dimensional information represents a cognitive bottleneck that reduces the bandwidth and the scope of information our brain can process. We will inevitably move from the 2D metaverse to the 3D AR metaverse simply because that is the path of least resistance in the consumption of information for humans.

Building an AR Metaverse means merging the physical and the virtual world with geolocalized and physical-space-aware 3D content. Spatial data – the 3D structure of physical locations – is the raw data needed to perform spatial computation and create the AR Metaverse by augmenting the physical world with 3D content. Whoever controls spatial data finally controls the AR Metaverse.

We believe that building a Web3 infrastructure for what we call the “AR Metaverse,” or the “Spatial Web,” is critical to carry us beyond a dystopian future where few Web2 organizations control the access to AR spatial content.

That’s why we built OVER because we believe that the AR Metaverse, the future of human interaction with information, should not be controlled, manipulated, or censored by Web2 organizations; it should belong to its citizens, and it should be built on Web3.