Virtually Embodied Intelligent Land²

V.E.I.L. (which will hereafter be referred to as VEIL) stands for Virtually Embodied Intelligent Land. It is the direct continuation and perhaps final evolution of my myriad digital twin efforts for my farm.

A VEIL has several functions:

It provides a digital 3 dimensional map of a property
It provides a real time interface for sensors and actuators distributed throughout a property
It provides model of a property at a snapshot in time
It stores snapshots of the property over time
It prepares and exposes all of the above to an artificial intelligence such that it can reason over the data and take actions to effect change in the physical environment.

So basically it's a digital body, or rather a digital representation of a physical body for an AI. At the same time, it's a user interface for the human in the loop. The most important thing, though, is that it's bidirectional, meaning that changes made in the digital system are reflected by real changes in the physical world that follow as a consequence and changes made in the physical world are reflected by changes in the digital system that follow.

That's why I like the VEIL backronym. It is the veil between worlds. For most of human history, we have lived in a bipartite world; the two realms have been the physical and the spiritual. Those haven't left us, but now we live in a tripartite reality; we live in the physical, the spiritual, and the virtual. Whereas "the veil" people may have referred into the past mediated between the physical and spiritual realms, the VEIL I'm creating mediates between the physical and digital realms.

As of this writing (March 27th 2026) we're still quite early, but I'll try to post updates here as it progresses:

The biggest progress right now is Mazzap (which can be played with (kinda) right here in your browser!). More to come soon!