After wrestling for more than a decade with the development of a technology that would create a three-dimensional map of the physical world, the team at 6D.ai is finally ready to open up to developers its toolkit that the company says has done exactly that. When company chief executive Matt Miesnieks announced the launch of 6D in March, he laid out a vision for its growth that had three goals: The company would build APIs to capture the three-dimensional geometry of the world; it would apply that three-dimensional data to build semantic APIs so applications can understand the world; and it would partner and extend those APIs to create an operating system for reality. Having achieved the first goal, the company is now working on the second. "The whole purpose of this company wasn't'Hey there's this new technology!' It's what can AR do in its fully realized form and what is a native experience for AR that hadn't worked in prior mediums and what's stopping that stuff from being effective and how do you solve those problems," says Miesnieks. For Miesnieks the problems confronting augmented reality come down to creating believable visual objects that integrate seamlessly into the world.