The Spatial Web: How Web 3.0 Will Connect Humans, Machines, and AI to Transform the World

by Gabriel Rene

Your smartwatch, which monitors your vital signs and compares them to all others in your cohort, can tell your autonomous car to take you to the hospital before you even realize you are having a heart attack. Your doctor will also be simultaneously notified and can provide customized instructions to the emergency room staff. Smart cities can prioritize and move traffic out of your path to assure the quickest travel time. Every medical procedure you undergo at the hospital will be immutably recorded onto your blockchain-based medical history profile.

Web 3.0 will utilize Spatial (AR, VR, MR), Physical (IoT, Wearables, Robotics), Cognitive (ML, AI,) and Distributed (Blockchain, Edge) computing technologies, simultaneously as part of an integrated stack. These four computing trends make up the three tiers of Web 3.0.

Immersive media may also allow us to feel closer to each other and connect personally to global issues such as humanitarian crises.

Web 3.0 is about building an intelligent and adaptive new web,

The Spatial Web must be traversable and contiguous and be able to maintain geo and virtual position as well as asset and user-anchored persistence of spatial content.