COLUMBUS, Ohio–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Six months after unveiling the world’s first metaverse browser at AWE 2025, RP1 is officially opening access on December 8, 2025 for developers everywhere to plug into the open spatial internet. RP1 will release the first public suite of tools and documentation, allowing anyone to build and self-host real-time 3D experiences using their own servers while owning their data and controlling their monetization. This puts the power directly in the hands of creators, developers, and companies to build the tools, services, and applications that fuel the next era of the spatial internet.
The Future of AR Glasses, AI, and the Metaverse
Sean Mann, Co-Founder and CEO of RP1, said, “Traditional 2D browsers were never meant to be proximity-based and connect millions of real-time services in areas like AI, commerce, education, social, and entertainment with no installations.” “Recent platform shutdowns, like HoloLens, 8th Wall, Mozilla Hubs, AltSpace, and others, have shown a major flaw in XR: without an open ecosystem, no one really has control over their own content.”
“More importantly, businesses can’t build their spatial infrastructure on walled garden platforms and with device lock-in.” Mann said, “A lot of people learned this the hard way when HoloLens stopped meeting their XR needs.” “What the spatial internet needs right now is a new 3D browser that lets anyone run spatial infrastructure on any server and any device, with full control over their data and corporate security.”
A New Technology Stack for Spatial Computing
RP1 introduces foundational technologies that set the stage for a global, persistent spatial internet.
- Open-Standard Metaverse Browser: A 3D proximity-based browser designed specifically for the spatial internet that works with VR, AR, mobile, and desktop
- Universal Spatial Fabric: A shared coordinate system connecting users to third-party, self-hosted services and content in real-time for both augmented and virtual reality
- Self-Hosted Spatial Servers: Manage your own 3D spaces, AI agents, and services on your own infrastructure
- Network Service Object (NSO): A unified API for both real-time and stateless services to deliver AI, payments, IoT, multiplayer logic, and more
- Statabase: Massive scalability with breakthrough software architecture capable of supporting Earth’s population in an unsharded ecosystem with full spatial audio and 6DOF using up to 1000x less compute and energy
“The reason mobile phones are so common is that they let people browse the web on the go. Dean Abramson, Co-Founder and Chief Architect, remarked, “Apps are only okay on phones because the web isn’t based on proximity.” “A metaverse browser that is based only on proximity needs a completely different architecture that lets apps and services be delivered on demand without having to be preinstalled. This could mean that hundreds of them are all running at the same time and sharing the same space.”
Access for Developers
Set up and run your own metaverse server
Make and build your own spatial fabric, which are 3D spaces that stay the same.
Connect your spatial fabric to RP1’s universal spatial fabric.
Make tools that are open so that other people can use them to build for the open metaverse.
More APIs, guidelines, and examples will be released until 2026. Learn for more information on these game-changing technologies.
Invitation to an Event
RP1’s special launch party will be on December 8 at 10:00 a.m. PT will provide you a detailed look at the architecture, browser, and development tools that are currently available.
What RP1 Is
RP1 is a leader in spatial computing, creating the standards and common infrastructure that an open spatial internet needs. RP1’s goal is to help create an open spatial internet that lets anybody build, deploy, and link 3D experiences without restrictions. RP1 is based on the early web and lets businesses, developers, and creators build and host their own 3D experiences on their own servers while still being part of a larger, interoperable XR ecosystem that can be accessed from any device. RP1 wants to make sure that the new metaverse follows the same rules as the World Wide Web: creators should be in charge of their own content, services should be able to connect to each other through open protocols, and the ecosystem should be shared by everyone instead of being owned by a single platform.