Mind Palace
AI Collaborative Knowledge Platform | Apple Vision Pro
Co-Founder, CTO, Experience Architect
2024-Present
Full-stack, cross-platform design, prototyping, & development
Vision Pro app for mind mapping & knowledge construction (Unity, C#, C++)
LLM integration with wrist-flip wakup gesture and animated UX
Web portal for cross-platform account & data management (React, html, CSS)
Cloud infrastructure for storage, sharing, and collaborative work (AWS IaC)
Deployed Yale classroom trials with 60+ students (2025, 2026 ongoing)
I’m curious how the dawn of new computing platforms and HCI paradigms such as spatial computing and AI will change our cognitive relationship with information.
I've developed a "Mind Palace" interface for augmented reality. This research positions itself in opposition to attention-extraction models that characterize contemporary short-form video platforms such as TikTok. Where algorithmic content delivery systems optimize for time-spent metrics and advertising revenue, Mind Palace explores alternative paradigms encouraging curiosity-driven exploration and knowledge persistence.
Current experimental implementations include a digital twin of Pompeii containing a spatialized archaeological archive, and collaboration with a Yale course (Spring 2025) where students co-construct a collective externalized memory architecture throughout the semester, allowing for empirical assessment of collaborative knowledge construction in spatial computing environments.
Usecase Demo: Fintech / News
Usecase Demo: History Review
Usecase Demo: Gallery
Yale Classroom Trial
Mind Palace is deployed as a primary tool of instruction at the Finding Yourself in the Future of Creativity Course at Yale for Spring 2025 and Spring 2026 semesters. 60+ students engaged in shared Mind Palaces and experienced collaborative learning in a XR environment.
Apple generously sponsored a Vision Pro device for each participating student.
Navigation & AI Interface
With a flip of the wrist., call up the main menu, a minimap of the current palace, or the conversational AI assistant.
The assistant LLM has access to the full mind palace through RAG and can answer questions & highlight nodes
Web portal for cross-platform account & data management (React, html, CSS)
Web Portal - Initial MVP
Web Portal - Updated Design &
3D Interactive Preview
Create
Tap to create a new petal (node)
Move
Drag to move petals
Move 3D
Drag also moves petals in depth
Connect
Double Click and Drag to create a connection
Comment
Add, edit, and move around comment notes
Draw
Tap to bring up the drawing panel
Draw
Pinch to draw
Highlight
Hold to make petals blossom (highlight)
Janusian Zoom
Named after the Roman God of Janus, who curiously has two faces.
A rethinking of the classic two handed zoom in a spatial context - instead of simply scaling up and down, we are actually zooming IN to a more focused mode of thinking, and zooming OUT to a more exploratory mode of thinking by dynamically scaling the information presented to the user.
An algorithm analyzes considers the overall topology of the memory palace and the user’s interactions to determine the relative weight of each node for any moment and zoom level.