Journey from ARPANET to XRPANET

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Let’s start at the beginning. Everything we know about the Internet and the Web started with ARPANET. What is ARPANET?

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switching network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet.

For more details, here’s a fun read: How the Internet was born: from the ARPANET to the Internet.

Forward ahead decades later, Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.

Until now, the Web has always been accessed through screens (desktops, laptops, and mobile devices).

Web 1.0 was the first generation of the Web consisting of simple static sites and search engines which gave rise to AOL, Yahoo, GeoCities, and Google.

Web 2.0 was the introduction of the mobile web with the convergence of smart phones, cloud, and user generated content which gave rise to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and SnapChat.

Web 3.0 (AKA the Spatial Web, real world web, metaverse, or cyberspace) is just getting started. The Spatial Web is bringing digital Web content, spatial apps, and user interaction into the physical world all around us via AR (augmented reality) using mobile devices and AR glasses such as Microsoft’s Hololens and Magic Leap as well as via VR (virtual reality) devices such as Oculus and Vive.

Note: XR is the new catch-all acronym for including all forms of extended reality including augmented, mixed, simulated, virtual, and whatever comes next.

XRPANET is the Extended Reality Planetary Anchors Network. Our mission is to unlock the Web from screens and free it into the physical world enabling XR technologies, IoT, robotics, AI, and people to interact on the same platform. Just like ARPANET became the first Internet, XRPANET aims to become the world’s first XR Spatial Web.

Our XR Cloud and XR Browser allow users to permanently “attach” digital content and spatial apps to physical addresses or lat/long coordinates and interact with them on any device (AR & VR). Our AR Browser includes mapping, spatial messaging, RTC (real-time communications), and co-presence while our VR Browser lets users teleport or “holoport” to any address and interact with digital content, spatial apps, and users in the physical world. In addition, our spatial messaging / MMO platform is built on MQTT (an IoT protocol), allowing billions of humans, robots, IoT devices, and digital content and spatial apps to communicate with one another and share presence and location within a given vicinity.

The image above is borrowed from AR Insider because it does a great job depicting how the new Spatial Web will blending into our physical world lives and jobs.

For more in depth information on the spatial web, please read Gabriel Rene and @danmape’ s new book, The Spatial Web. It explains a fascinating adventure into the brave new world web!

The Internet of Everything (XR, IoT, Robotics, AI, etc) is here and you can start experiencing it now. We’re helping make that possibility a reality! Give it a try today at https://xrpa.net. Afterwards, please provide feedback and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.