The UNAVI Vision

What is UNAVI?

UNAVI is an open-source spatial browser—a gateway to three-dimensional hypermedia. UNAVI serves as a reference implementation of The Wired protocol.

UNAVI is not a walled garden. It provides the foundation for an open, interoperable ecosystem where identities, spaces, and objects operate under shared standards.

What is The Wired?

The Wired is the spatial hypermedia layer of the Internet—a protocol for representing and linking shared 3D environments. It defines how spaces, objects, and user agents take form and interact with each other.

A useful way to think of The Wired is as the 3D equivalent of the Web. The Web is a network of 2D hypertext documents, while The Wired is a network of 3D hyperspace documents.

The Wired is the expression of a self-evident philosophy: information systems should reflect the natural order of the human experience. Common digital interfaces flatten information into screens and feeds—but humans evolved as spatial beings. The many schools of feng shui (風水) have spent thousands of years studying the extent of this phenomenon.

Viewed in this light, The Wired restores a much needed spatial structure to the digital world.

Spatial Continuity

A defining aspect of The Wired is seamless spatial continuity. Independent spaces can be linked together through portals without interruption of presence or state. Moving between spaces does not require reloading, respawning, or resetting context; the transition is treated as a true bridging of space.

This design allows The Wired to function more like a sprawling virtual environment than a library of separate experiences or applications. Users can navigate across different spaces while carrying the same identity, objects, and interaction model.

Creation and Autopoiesis

At the heart of The Wired is a computation layer powered by WebAssembly.

Inspired by autopoiesis, the scripting system allows documents to define and maintain their own behavior through internal logic. This causes hyperspace objects to operate predictably in any environment. Pick up a tool, carry it through a portal to a new space, and it will still work.

Autopoiesis does not imply isolation. Objects can still react to and communicate with their surroundings through a number of interfaces. Most prominent of all is the interface of 3D space itself, via physics interactions.

Over time this grows into an ecosystem of software that composes in a novel manner not possible outside of hyperspace.

The Vision

UNAVI exists to give form to The Wired—to make spatial hypermedia usable, open, and accessible.

For decades, the Web has been a network of text and images. It is expressive, but fundamentally two-dimensional. People, however, perceive and understand information through spatial relationships. Presence, distance, orientation, and environment all influence how we think and communicate.

UNAVI’s goal is to reintroduce these spatial qualities to digital life. When information lives in space, it becomes clearer, more navigable, and more natural. The Wired gives the Internet the form it was always meant to take.

Principles

The Wired, expressed through UNAVI, should be:

• Open—Based on transparent standards.
• Interoperable—Objects and identities move freely across environments.
• User-sovereign—Users own their data and decide where it is stored.
• Generative—Systems should support internal growth and adaptation.
• Human-centered—Interfaces should reinforce presence, clarity, and meaningful interaction.