Researchers carry notepads, cameras, voice recorders — then transcribe for weeks. The felt immediacy of the moment is lost forever by the time it becomes data.

Existing spatial tools map coordinates, boundaries, flows. They cannot map anxiety, awe, memory, or belonging. The emotional texture of place is invisible.

Traditional fieldwork extracts data from people rather than with them. Participants have no way to contribute their own spatial voice — in real time, in place.

Spatial research teams share PDFs. There is no shared spatial memory. No way to walk through what a colleague collected on the other side of the city.

Drop spatial anchors as you move through real space. Attach field notes, photos, and emotions — pinned to the exact 3D location they occurred.

Claude AI classifies each anchor by spatial theme — liminal, civic, sensory, memorial, transitional. Turning subjective feeling into structured knowledge.

Publish your project as a public link. Anyone can enter your reality — walk your paths, read your anchors, feel what you felt, without installing anything.

Where one pauses before entering. Where decisions are made. Architecturally nameless — experientially everything.

Where people wait, linger, encounter each other without appointment. The unplanned social infrastructure of buildings.

A window edge, a courtyard corner, a beam of afternoon sun. Places that acquire private or shared significance through repetition.

The building is scanned at millimetre precision and exported as a calibrated 3D model. Every anchor lands on real geometry — not a diagram.

The MR headset's coordinate system is calibrated to the digital twin's coordinate frame — so anchors from different sessions and different people all land in the same spatial reference.

The analytical dashboard loads the digital twin, overlays all session paths and anchors, and lets researchers filter, compare, and navigate — all in the browser, no specialist software.

A courtyard-based building with decades of repeated occupation. Dense with thresholds, landings, and micro-places that users have marked with memory and meaning — but which have never been mapped at that scale.

24–40 participants. Two stages: first, anchor your own experience privately. Then, encounter what others shared and respond. Spatial logs, paths, voice notes, photos — all synced to a LiDAR digital twin in real time.

Reviewed and approved by ITU Social and Human Sciences Research Ethics Committee (Project No. 2026-01-822, January 2026). All data pseudonymised. Participants can withdraw at any point.

Taşkışla is the testbed, not the limit. The same protocol works in any occupied building where users generate spatial meaning over time — hospitals, museums, schools, public spaces.

Phones now run full spatial applications from a browser URL. The install barrier — which killed every previous field research app — has finally collapsed.

Claude AI can now read a field note and reliably classify its spatial theme, interpret its emotional register, and contextualise it within spatial theory — in real time.

People are newly aware of how space shapes their wellbeing, anxiety, and belonging. The cultural vocabulary for spatial feeling is wider than it has ever been.

Fear, memory, belonging, exclusion — the felt dimensions of space that architecture ignores — become data, become policy, become change.

One person's experience of an underpass is anecdote. A hundred people's experience, mapped, classified, and compared — is evidence. Evidence changes cities.

Experiences happen once and disappear. Reality Overlap preserves the spatial feeling of a moment — pinned to a location — so others can encounter it, later, in the same place.

Run your next field study on Reality Overlap. Free forever for participants. Your data in 3D. Anchor cards ready for publication.

Partner with us. Pilot with a student cohort. Help define what spatial research looks like in the embodied computing era.

Build with us. The spatial layer of human experience is unclaimed territory. Researchers, developers, and spatial practitioners welcome.