Remix Reality Weekly
📬 Remix Reality Weekly: Humans to the Rescue
In this drop, do saving robots show how trust with machines runs both ways? Plus Meta expands retail locations, Waymo touts safety gains, and Purdue opens a spatial hub with Apple.
Tom Emrich
Tom is the Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Remix Reality. A pioneer in AR, VR, and wearables, he brings 15 years of experience in spatial computing as a journalist, investor, and product leader—often called “the man from the future.”
Remix Reality Insider
🔓 Remix Reality Insider: Offloading Risk with AI & AR
In this drop, spatial computing steps to the frontline of human safety, smartglasses show why physical retail is the missing layer of trust, and look at robot empathy as we form new bonds with machines.
Editorial
Why Smartglasses Need Physical Retail to Succeed
Smartglasses are expected to eventually replace our smartphones to offer us a heads-up and hands-free way to engage with digital information. Ironically, these digitally-native devices require something surprisingly old-fashioned to succeed: physical retail.
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📬 Remix Reality Weekly: Glasses in Focus
Meta makes moves in AI, glasses, and VR with new launches, food robots expand into offices, and investors fund robotics foundation models. Comfort and context remain the barriers to smartglasses reaching mainstream adoption.
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🔓 Remix Reality Insider: Meta’s Post-Smartphone Future
In this drop, Meta Connect put glasses, AI, and VR at the center while machines learn from both real-world data and simulation. Comfort and context remain key obstacles for smartglasses on the path to mainstream adoption.
Breaking News
Glasses, AI, and VR: Everything Announced at Meta Connect 2025
Meta made some major announcements today as part of Mark Zuckerberg's keynote at its largest annual event, Connect. Zuckerberg framed his keynote around the three technologies Meta is focusing on as it reinvents itself for the era of spatial computing, including glasses, AI, and virtual reality.
Breaking News
Spectacles Gets WebXR-enabled Browser, New Spotlight and Gallery Lenses
Snap has updated the operating system behind Spectacles, its fifth-generation AR glasses. Snap OS 2.0 brings with it a brand new interface, massive updates to the browser, and brand new content lenses to discover and engage with content.
Remix Reality Weekly
📬 Remix Reality Weekly: Adding Context to Reality
In this drop we look at wearables as context engines that generate new metadata to reshape apps, plus news on Zoox’s robotaxi launch, Lucid’s AR SUV, Copresence avatars, a real-time Earth twin, DEEP Robotics’ tunnel duo, and more.
Remix Reality Insider
🔓 Remix Reality Insider: Human in the Loop
In this drop we explore why autonomy still needs humans in the loop, how robots as a service is making automation more accessible, and why wearables that listen and sense may unlock a new layer of context for personalization.
Sponsored Post
Copresence Unlocks Fast AI Avatar Creation With Just a Phone as Platform Exits Beta
Copresence's AI-powered avatar creation platform has moved out of beta, making it possible for anyone to create an avatar with just a smartphone. Already trusted by leading gaming and technology companies, the platform is designed to deliver production-ready results in minutes.
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📬 Remix Reality Weekly: Party Mode for Mixed Reality
Tom’s Take on why headsets need group bundles to make shared reality possible. Plus meal robots, Isuzu’s autonomous truck site, Meta’s Horizon update, 3D splats in glTF, Starbucks’ visual AI, and Coca-Cola’s AR Star Wars cans.
Remix Reality Insider
🔓 Remix Reality Insider: Teaching Machines to See
In this drop we look at vision-language models as the next frontier, turning what machines see into context for daily use. We then dive into Waymo’s U.S. expansion and close with Tom’s Take on why headsets risk isolating people in the same room.