Applied Research Group

Understanding Space.Natively.

An applied research group working at the intersection of spatial intelligence, temporal reasoning, and 3D representation.

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WORLD MODEL v0.1
Our Mission

Intelligence is relational. Between entities, there is space.

For artificial intelligence to reach its full potential, it must understand the spatial and temporal structure of that space.

Because this understanding is always incomplete, abstraction is required.

And to interact with intelligence at all, it must take the form of a representation.

What we’re thinking about

Research & Artifacts

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World Models
Feb 2025

Why Video-Based World Models Fail for Interactive Systems

Video generation captures appearance, not structure. We examine why predicting pixels is fundamentally insufficient for systems that need to reason about agency, causality, and real-time interaction.

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Representation
Mar 2025

Physics Inference as a First-Class Primitive

Rather than bolting physics onto a learned model, we argue that physical constraint satisfaction should be a core architectural primitive — changing what the model is, not just what it's trained on.

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Engine
Mar 2025

Toward a 4D-Native Game Engine

Existing engines treat time as a playback dimension. We explore what it means for time to be a first-class representational axis — enabling temporal reasoning, causality modeling, and world-state interpolation natively.

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We’re Early

Build the spatial layer of intelligence. With us.

STAR Labs is early. If these problems keep you up at night, we want to hear from you.