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What Is Universal Manifest?
The core idea: one portable signed envelope for identity, credentials, preferences, and permissions.
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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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A day in the life with UM identity
A five-minute film: one weekend of a festival-goer across a border, a festival and two virtual worlds, where every moment is an identity moment.
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The Cartographic Tour
A map of Universal Manifest's five regions, from today's ready capabilities to what comes next.
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3D Assets and Spatial Content
How 3D models carry authorship and usage terms across tools and worlds.
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Trust, Provenance, and a Standard that Unifies
How Universal Manifest carries private signed provenance for 3D assets across formats.
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How Identity Works
How proof you control travels with you so apps and worlds recognize the same you.
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How Consent Works
How you share what you choose, keep the rest private, and revoke permission later.
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Portaling and State Continuity
How identity, preferences, and belongings travel with you instead of being left behind.
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Holder Control and Selective Disclosure
How you run your own profile and choose exactly what each encounter receives.
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Standards Alignment
How Universal Manifest wraps existing standards with portable trust instead of replacing them.
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RP1 Integration
How Universal Manifest gives RP1 a portable envelope for identity, assets, and permissions.
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Enterprise Adoption
How organizations get governance, compliance, and audit trails for shared data.
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Spatial Scenarios
Where Universal Manifest appears across smart glasses, homes, factories, vehicles, and robots.
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What Is a Universal Manifest Receipt?
What the shared receipt proves after an exchange.
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Zero-Knowledge Claims in Universal Manifest
How to prove eligibility without revealing underlying data.
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Agent Delegation and Bounded-Scope Authorization
How you let an AI assistant act for you inside strict authority boundaries.
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Content Rating and Capacity-Aware Permissions
How spaces check age or suitability without learning who you are.
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Signed Module Trust
How systems verify software is genuine before running it.
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Device Capability Publication
How a device advertises its abilities so nearby systems know how to connect.
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Entity Type Attestation
How manifests distinguish humans, AI systems, organizations, and services.
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DID Binding
How a manifest subject binds to DIDs and verifiable signatures.
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Verifiable Credentials in Manifests
How verifiable credentials ride inside a signed manifest.
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Pairwise Identifiers
Explains privacy-preserving identifiers for separate service encounters.
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Consent Records
Explains the durable record of what a user consented to share.
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Selective Disclosure
How subjects share only the claims a service needs.
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Sensor Consent Gating
How sensitive sensor streams stay governed by consent.
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Enterprise Policy Overrides
How organizational policy constrains consent behavior.
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Bilateral Exchange
How two parties request, disclose, accept, and record terms.
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Avatar Portability
Explains portable avatar preferences, parametric state, and asset pointers.
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Persistent Preferences
How preferences follow a subject without platform cookies.
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Universal Manifest and C2PA: The Architecture of Trust
How C2PA file provenance pairs with identity and consent.
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W3C DIDs
How DIDs name subjects, issuers, and signing keys beneath the manifest.
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W3C Verifiable Credentials
How issuer credentials ride inside a holder-signed manifest.
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JCS and Ed25519 Signatures
How canonical JSON and Ed25519 combine into a portable signature profile.
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OpenXR and Consent
How per-purpose consent rides above sensor access so evaluators fail closed.
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glTF Avatar Assets
How glTF avatars keep format while manifests carry trust.
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Universal Manifest and RP1: Spatial Addressing
How an RP1 place address becomes a consent-gated bookmark.
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Universal Manifest and RP1: RMAP Service Credentials
How visitors prove RP1 service access locally.
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Universal Manifest and RP1: SOM Branch Authorization
How RP1 checks permission before anything is built into a sub-world or overlay.
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Universal Manifest and RP1: The Content Trust Chain
How RP1 worlds verify imported assets before loading.
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Universal Manifest and RP1: Primary and Secondary Fabric Composition
How layered RP1 worlds stay permissioned as you move.
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Enterprise Governance
Explains governance needs for organizational deployments.
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Factory Floor Scenario
An AR maintenance shift with trust and audit records.
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Accessibility Preferences
How accessibility preferences travel across systems.
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Delegated Agent Provenance
How delegated agents show provenance and authority limits.
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Human, AI, Organization, or Service?
How a manifest identifies an actor as a person, AI, organization, or service.
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Proof-of-Personhood Positioning
How a space verifies you are a real person without learning who you are.
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Proving Facts Without Revealing Data
How you prove one fact, like age eligibility, while keeping details private.
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Eye, Hand, and Room Geometry Permissions
How spaces get only the eye, hand, or room sensing they need.
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Parametric Avatar State
How a compact avatar profile points to richer assets so you appear in a new world.
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Factory Press Maintenance
A factory-floor trust check between technician and machine.
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Autonomous Vehicles
How autonomous vehicles share intersection data with verified trust.
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Robots and Drones
How autonomous machines prove identity before joining a working group.
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6G Sensing and Bystander Consent
How people declare consent choices to sensing networks around them.
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Reality Capture
How a 3D scan carries proof of where and how it was captured.
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Content Discovery
How discovery personalizes results without storing who you are afterward.
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Smart Home
How new devices join your home while household privacy rules stay in force.
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Smart Glasses and Bystander Consent
How wearables exchange consent with nearby people.
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Avatar Portaling
How avatar look, behavior, and sharing choices travel across worlds.
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Social Identity Portability
How reputation and verified credentials move with you between platforms.
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Mobile Native ID
How your phone becomes the credential you present at physical checkpoints.
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Content Rating Aware Experiences
How spaces tailor access by age or suitability without learning who you are.
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