Baseline
Euclidean
The honest plane. Everything else is measured against it.
Inside ibiLab
Virtual reality gives us a controlled way to change the structure of a world and observe how the brain finds its way through it.
Inside ibiLab, we build immersive environments in which geometry, movement, and physical rules can be altered with precision. By studying how people learn, navigate, and adapt within them, we investigate the cognitive maps that support orientation, memory, and purposeful action — and how those maps are revised when familiar cues no longer agree.
Current Questions
How does the mind map a world that has no familiar geometry?Neural Cartography
If gravity changes, can intuition change with it?Altered Physics
Where is “forward” when geometry and gravity disagree?Agency Beyond Euclid
How should humans move through worlds we did not evolve to inhabit?Embodied Locomotion
What happens when the internal map begins to disappear?Neurocognitive Navigation
Build the world. Change the rule. Measure the adaptation.Experimental Systems
Experimental Worlds
Geometry
Curved & Spherical
Curvature the horizon betrays long before anyone measures it.
Geometry
Hyperbolic
Negative curvature everywhere. Space runs away from the observer.
Topology
Topologically Unusual
Locally believable, globally impossible. The contradiction lives only in the integration.
Physics
Altered Gravity
A prior strong enough that changing it changes prediction, action, and reasoning.
Movement
Novel Locomotion
Hands-free and body-linked movement for worlds the body has no inherited solution for.
Research Notes
We share notes on experiments, methods, and ideas as the work develops.
Open Collaborations
Specific questions and systems where outside researchers, organizations, or clinical partners are invited to engage.
Non-Euclidean path integration
Which spatial representations remain stable when metric structure becomes unreliable?
Open the questionNavigation as an early signature
Which parts of the navigational scaffold become unreliable first?
Open the questionThe tempo gap
How much uncertainty can a human system metabolize while remaining capable of adaptive action?
Open the questionMovement and MS
Can immersive movement environments expand how motor adaptation is studied and trained?
Open the questionExperimental worlds for studying cognition beyond familiar constraints.
Propose a Research Collaboration