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What Is Universal Manifest?
A plain-language overview of Universal Manifest: one portable, signed envelope that carries your identity, credentials, and preferences wherever you go.
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Universal Manifest, explained.
Short videos that build on each other. Start with the overview, then follow the branch that fits you. Each one carries the same idea one step further: a portable, signed envelope that holds your identity, your assets, how you present yourself, and the permissions you set, and presents the right version of you whenever two parties meet.
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How Identity Works
How the same you stays recognizable across apps and worlds, with proof of who you are that you carry and control.
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How Consent Works
How you share only what you choose, keep the rest private, and can take that permission back at any time.
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Portaling and State Continuity
How your identity, preferences, and belongings travel with you from one world to the next instead of being left behind.
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Holder Control and Selective Disclosure
How you hold and run your own profile, and choose for each encounter exactly what the other party gets to see.
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Standards Alignment
How Universal Manifest works alongside the standards you already use, adding a trusted wrapper rather than replacing anything.
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Enterprise Adoption
How organizations use Universal Manifest for governance, compliance, and a clear audit trail of who shared what.
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Spatial Scenarios
Where Universal Manifest shows up in real spatial computing settings, from smart glasses and smart homes to factory floors, vehicles, and robots.
Mechanism
What Is a Universal Manifest Receipt?
What the shared receipt proves after two parties exchange information, and why both sides can rely on it later.
Mechanism
Zero-Knowledge Claims in Universal Manifest
How you can prove a fact about yourself, like being old enough, without revealing the underlying personal data.
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Agent Delegation and Bounded-Scope Authorization
How you let an AI assistant act for you while strictly limiting what it is allowed to do on your behalf.
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Content Rating and Capacity-Aware Permissions
How a space can check age or suitability and tailor access, without learning who you actually are.
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Signed Module Trust
How a system confirms a piece of software is genuine and unaltered before it lets the code run.
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Device Capability Publication
How a device announces what it can do so nearby devices can decide what to share and how to connect.
Deep dive
Universal Manifest and RP1: Spatial Addressing
How Universal Manifest carries the address of a place in RP1 as a signed, consent-gated bookmark that a world checks on entry.
Deep dive
Universal Manifest and RP1: RMAP Service Credentials
How a visitor proves their RP1 service access to a world locally, without re-presenting credentials, leaving both sides a receipt.
Deep dive
Universal Manifest and RP1: SOM Branch Authorization
How RP1 grants permission to build into a sub-world or overlay, checked at the point of entry before anything is added.
Deep dive
Universal Manifest and RP1: The Content Trust Chain
How an RP1 world verifies that every imported asset and module is genuine and not revoked before it loads into the scene.
Deep dive
Universal Manifest and RP1: Primary and Secondary Fabric Composition
How a main RP1 world and the worlds layered onto it stay separately permissioned and fully auditable as you move between them.
Detail
Human, AI, Organization, or Service?
How a manifest states whether the actor is a person, an AI, an organization, or a service, so each is handled correctly.
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Proof-of-Personhood Positioning
How a space can ask for a sign that you are a real person without forcing you to reveal who you are.
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Proving Facts Without Revealing Data
How you can prove a single fact about yourself, like meeting an age limit, while keeping the underlying details private.
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Eye, Hand, and Room Geometry Permissions
How a space can be granted the least revealing level of eye, hand, and room sensing it needs, and nothing more.
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Parametric Avatar State
How a compact avatar description travels with you and points to the richer assets, so you appear instantly in a new world.
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3D Assets and Spatial Content
How a 3D model or avatar carries who made it and the terms it travels under, so it stays trusted across tools and worlds.
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Signed Software Modules
How a spatial environment checks that a piece of downloaded code is genuine, unaltered, and not revoked before it runs.
Use case
Avatar Portaling
How your avatar look, behavior, and the sharing choices behind it travel with you across the boundary from one world to the next.
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Content Rating Aware Experiences
How a space can tailor what it shows by age or suitability, and confirm eligibility, without learning who you actually are.
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Mobile Native ID
How your phone becomes the thing you present at any physical checkpoint, replacing separate cards and vendor specific apps.
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Smart Glasses and Bystander Consent
How wearables become socially workable through a quiet, automatic consent exchange between the people nearby and the recording device.
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Smart Home
How a new device joins your home instantly and your household privacy rules are enforced without a separate app per brand.
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Social Identity Portability
How your social identity, reputation, and verified credentials move with you, so switching platforms never means starting from zero.
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6G Sensing and Bystander Consent
How a person can declare their consent choices to next generation networks that can sense the people around them.
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Autonomous Vehicles
How self driving vehicles from different operators can safely share what they see at an intersection with verified trust.
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Content Discovery
How a discovery service can personalize results at the moment you ask, without storing who you are afterward.
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Factory Press Maintenance
One concrete factory floor encounter: a technician and a heavy machine confirm trust and leave a sealed, audit ready record.
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Reality Capture
How a 3D scan of a real place carries proof of where and how it was captured, so receiving systems can trust its origin.
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Robots and Drones
How autonomous machines prove their identity to each other and admit a new unit into a working group with verified trust.
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The use cases put the handshake in eighteen everyday rooms. The specification is the technical reference for implementers, every rule the receiver runs.