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space is a programmable, shared, user-owned computing environment for code, knowledge, games, art, and collaboration.

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Spatial Computing

3D spaces with in-world media, embedded surfaces, spatial widgets, and interactive visualization.

Live Programming

Code you can inspect, modify, and reload in place while the world is running.

Shared Worlds

Persistent multi-user spaces for collaboration, communication, and social interaction.

User-Owned Infrastructure

Self-hosted and federated services for sync, communication, identity, and software distribution.

Games, Art, and Simulation

Games, visual art, simulation, and artificial life built inside interactive worlds.

Connected Workflows

Code, data, notes, tools, media, and world state linked together for knowledge work and creation.

What Is space? ​

  • 3D Emacs: a programmable environment where code, notes, tools, and media can be inspected and reshaped in place.
  • Operating system interface: a spatial shell for files, apps, services, and world objects.
  • Federated metaverse: persistent virtual worlds built on user-owned infrastructure.
  • Collaborative workspace and social medium: shared spaces for communication, editing, coordination, and presence.
  • Gaming and simulation platform: editable worlds for games, experiments, toys, and interactive systems.
  • Live development environment: code and runtime state can be changed while the system is running.
  • Information management system: graph-oriented notes, tasks, files, conversations, and code linked together.
  • Digital arts and visualization tool: a place for visual art, spatial interfaces, interactive media, and data visualization.

This section will eventually show short demos. The current planned gallery labels are:

  • Graph workspace
  • Live programming
  • Terrain and world editing
  • Gameplay and simulation sandbox
  • Drawing canvas
  • Browser, terminal, and media surfaces
  • Linked conversations, notes, and code

Project State ​

  • [x] 3D runtime with scene rendering, physics, spatial widgets, and embedded surfaces
  • [x] Fennel + C++ runtime with the current layout and widget system
  • [x] Entity and graph model for state, linked objects, and graph-backed views
  • [x] Core UI primitives and interactions: text, buttons, inputs, lists, focus, and selection
  • [x] Engine and app integrations: terminal, video playback, browser embedding, search, LLM client work, and remote-control debugging
  • [x] Interactive world-editing work: terrain, lighting, scene objects, and drawing/canvas workflows
  • [x] Technical groundwork for game-like worlds: physics, scene objects, world state, and live editing tools
  • [ ] Graph browsing, editing, filtering, and navigation as a coherent primary workflow
  • [ ] Integrated graph/terminal/search/file editing workflow
  • [ ] In-place widget and code editing with defined reload units, history, and rollback
  • [ ] Gameplay systems such as avatars, vehicles, and reusable world mechanics
  • [ ] Shared-world state and realtime sync with permissions and provenance
  • [ ] Matrix-based social and contribution views around code, assets, and worlds
  • [ ] Concrete pod, asset distribution, and service-management workflows