The Spatial Web represents the next evolution of the internet—one built for intelligent systems operating in the real world. Where today’s web links documents, the Spatial Web connects objects, places, and actions, allowing robots, drones, sensors, and software agents to share context and collaborate intelligently.
This framework is now formalized through global IEEE-approved standards: the Hyperspace Modeling Language (HSML) and Hyperspace Transaction Protocol (HSTP). HSML provides a kind of grammar for describing things and their relationships in space; HSTP defines how they securely transact and exchange information. Together, they give machines a shared understanding of reality.
VERSES is integrating these standards into its intelligence platform, Genius™, with agents that use active inference to learn and adapt in real time and communicate across systems, making cooperation between devices possible.
A glimpse of this future is the EcoNet project, a smart-technology simulation that demonstrates how Spatial Web protocols let thermostats, batteries, and appliances negotiate energy use dynamically. In the test home, an AI-controlled smart thermostat and a battery storage system uses HSML to describe their goals (comfort, cost, emissions) and negotiate actions every 10 minutes. Unlike traditional approaches, the seamless coordination, cooperation, and interoperability among multiple agents enables efficient energy usage and optimization. The result: Energy cost and carbon emissions both fell by 15 to 20 percent. Think of it as a scalable smart grid for managing energy use effectively, from a single room to a house to a neighborhood to an entire city.
The Spatial Web is the layer beneath the next wave of robotics, smart infrastructure, logistics, energy, and autonomous systems. By embedding the standards in our Genius™ platform and enabling enterprise adoption, VERSES is positioning itself at the foundation where machines must reason about changing conditions, anticipate, and act to coordinate resources and demands effectively.
Developers will be able to use our models to create agents with diverse skills that can be sized to fit. “The next evolution,” states a recent MIT report, “is an agentic web where autonomous systems can discover, negotiate, and coordinate across the entire internet infrastructure, fundamentally changing how business processes operate.” Gartner has also identified spatial AI as the next frontier, and the Spatial Web is at the forefront of this.
This was echoed in November 2025 by Jefferies’ analysis predicting that real value from agentic AI “will come from an agentic mesh—a decentralized architecture that allows multiple autonomous AI agents to collaborate and act across different systems, tools, and language models.”