Transforming The Urban Experience

Metalens™ is Enviropedia's mixed-reality platform. We blur the line between a search engine, a web browser, and (we think) it works like magic in spatial environments (but not necessarily required). It's designed to work seamlessly on a phone, tablet, headsets such as the Apple Vision Pro, and in the future we are exploring support for game consoles and television platforms such as AppleTV and Google TV.

Unlike generic search engines, we don't just index words. We index text, images, audio, video, geometry, and time points,  and relate them in insanely great ways. We transform search terms from literal words into search objects, with a complete set of contextual connections, paired with chronological support. You can build incredibly rich sets of information and connect information in real-time that would fall through the cracks with standard search engines. Our methodology could save users years of research time (and thousands of searches), all done in the blink of an eye.

Enviropedia™ and Metalens™ does not rely on generative AI in any way. They are completely separate approaches to working with the world's information. We place a heavy focus on accuracy, and while we think generative AI is interesting, we don't see a consistent, reliable result possible because of the apparent flaws in the technology. We also don't think generative AI works efficiently for spatial environments.

Metalens™ uses only trustable information publishers that demonstrate a consistent track record of furnishing reliable information and take responsibility when questionable information arises. No social media or fringe content here, only "fresh drinking water" for our users.

Enviropedia™ is a startup. We start like a lamb and build up to big things to emerge as a lion. We're currently focused on practical applications that generate value to users and customers — and for the world to see our idea in a simple, straightforward way. As we continue to build infrastructure, we will certainly expand into broader areas, but they will look different than how search engines are viewed and used today. Our goal in the future is to look back one day and have the world wonder how we lived our lives without technology like this.

Metalens™ works impressively on a web browser, but has significant advantages and functionality as an app, connecting multiple products with real-time information for museums, hotels, restaurants, auctions and more. We are looking to release an early preview sometime in late 2025.

The single biggest factor contributing to the success and failure of news and journalism has been the revenue model. Before 1993, subscription revenue, placement ad revenue, and classified ad revenue built media empires. Since those days, there hasn't been a revenue model for publishing that's been anywhere close. Enviropedia™ has developed a new model for publishers to get revenue that can increase the average revenue per user (ARPU) in significant ways (that current information distributors like search engines, generative AI platforms, and social media has not been able to achieve .

Most definitely! Enviropedia's robust object-oriented approach can work in both spatial and non-spatial ways. We believe we are the only company in the world that does this.

There is nothing more sacred than trust and the right of a user to make a fully-informed decision. We see tremendous opportunities in leveraging new revenue models that build better experiences for users, with less reliance on advertiser-based revenue models that trivializes users into a  product. Any information we collect and would sell is clearly the choice of the user in an easy to understand way.

All of our information can be traced to the original sources, with links.

We see a huge opportunity in museums and auctions. These industries could benefit immensely by having secured highly visual real-time information and provenance, both for on-site and remote experiences. Enviropedia has been researching and building our knowledge in this space to understand the ways that information often gets overlooked to inspire deeper understanding and further interest in culture, history and heritage to create highly visual and information-rich experiences.

Restaurants have a straightforward problem in that food is visual and highly experiential. Menu descriptions don't come close to representing the final product presented to the customer. Also, its extremely challenging to be competitive and let customers know key attractions at their restaurant, like (say) an outdoor patio or a tiki bar on an upper floor.

Quoting Steve Jobs, "Boy have we patented it!"
We have multiple patents granted and patents pending internationally and in the US. We have grants for three broad patents , 60 patent claims, and approximately 58 patent citations (and cited by references) that include multiple references of Apple, Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm, and Amazon.

We definitely think so. We also know this is a bold claim to make. We've had nearly a decade to understand this problem thoroughly.

The minds at Enviropedia™ realized that to be successful in spatial computing, you need two essential aspects to thrive: