What If Information Appeared in the Real World?
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When we visit a property, we often switch our attention between the apartment buildings in front of us and the screen on our smartphone.
The actual building is right there, but we search real estate platforms for property listings.
We look through local community forums to learn what life is like in the apartment complex, then turn to articles and videos for information about redevelopment projects.
All of this information describes the same place.
What if online information could be reorganized around the real-world places it describes?
Imagine looking at an apartment building and seeing its property listings.
As you pass a playground, you find comments left there by residents.
At an apartment complex scheduled for redevelopment, you can view project information and architectural renderings.
This story uses real estate to imagine one possible experience of the Spatial Internet.
Viewing the Same Place Through Different Layers
A man arrives at an apartment complex to look around and evaluate the property.
He holds up his smartphone, and property listings appear over the apartment building on the screen.
When he points the phone at the lower floors, he sees listings for units on those floors.
When he looks higher, listings for units on the middle and upper floors appear.
Prices, listing types, floor plans, and interior photos are all connected to the building.
When he looks at another building, listings for that building appear instead.
As he walks into the apartment complex, he sees a different kind of information.
At the playground, a resident has left a comment: “A great place for children to play.”
Along a walking path, another resident has written: “The cherry blossoms are beautiful in spring.”
Instead of reading one general review of the entire apartment complex, he finds specific information in the places where those experiences actually happened.
He then looks at an older apartment complex nearby and sees another layer of information.
Redevelopment plans, architectural renderings, and related videos appear over the buildings.
He can compare what stands there today with what the complex may look like in the future, all in the same place.
By swiping the screen, he switches between information layers connected to that location.
He moves from property listings to resident comments, then to redevelopment information.
The previous layer disappears, and the selected layer appears in the same location.
The real-world place remains the same, but each layer offers completely different information and a different point of view.
Who Adds This Information?
Real estate agents add property listings and floor plans to the relevant buildings.
Residents leave information about their daily experiences at playgrounds, walking paths, and other places throughout the apartment complex.
Property developers add redevelopment plans, architectural renderings, and related videos.
Different people connect the information they have to the same place, and users discover the information they need when they visit that location.
Instead of moving between multiple platforms and web pages and repeatedly searching for the same address, users can choose the information layer they want while looking at the place itself.
The starting point for finding information shifts from a platform’s search bar to the real-world location.
Information Is Reorganized Around Real-World Places
The Spatial Internet does not replace existing online information or gather everything into a single service.
Instead, existing articles, photos, videos, and links are connected to the real-world places they describe and organized as different information layers over the same location.
Users no longer need to search for the same place across multiple apps. They can choose the information and perspective they need while looking at the space in front of them.
Today, this information can be viewed through a phone. As smart glasses improve, users may be able to select the information layer they need simply by looking at the real world.
Real estate is just one scenario that shows what the Spatial Internet could be.
Information no longer remains confined to online pages. It moves to the real-world places it describes.
An Internet where anyone can connect information to a place, and anyone can discover it there.
A new world begins, where the same place can be viewed through multiple layers of information.
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