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McDonaldland VR Arrives on Meta Horizon Worlds and WebXR
McDonald’s is unveiling McDonaldland VR, an immersive experience set to open August 12 on Meta Horizon Worlds for Meta Quest users and as a browser-based WebXR option.
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Unitree Debuts A2 Quadruped Robot With Extended Endurance and Industrial-Grade Design
Unitree has introduced the A2 Stellar Explorer, a medium-sized, industrial-grade quadruped robot designed for demanding terrain and extended missions. Weighing approximately 37kg with batteries, the A2 can walk for over 5 hours and 20km unloaded, or 3 hours and 12.5km carrying a 25kg load.
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Disney Brings Fantastic Four Robot to Life with Rolling, Guest-Ready Moves
Disney has brought the Fantastic Four’s robot sidekick H.E.R.B.I.E. out of the movies and into real life at Disneyland. For a limited time in Tomorrowland, guests can meet the superhero team and interact with the rolling, talking companion, built by Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development
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AI Wayfinding Companion Project Shows the Power of Spatial Intelligence
The wearable pendant, called AI Wayfinding Companion, was created by a team of three, including Ian Curtis, Emma McMillin, and Jim O'Donnell, as part of a 7-day hackathon held at Niantic Spatial. It's meant to be worn as a specialized companion for navigation and environmental understanding.
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Adobe to End Support for AR Tool Aero by December 2025
Adobe announced it will discontinue its Aero application on iOS, Android, and Creative Cloud Desktop starting November 6, 2025. On that date, the app will be removed from the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and Creative Cloud, though existing installations will remain operational temporarily.
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📬 Remix Reality Weekly: Physical AI Ad Space
In this drop: Robots become rolling billboards, AVs turn into mobile brand experiences, and humanoids could be ad-supported. Plus, care-bots, wildfire-rebuilding robots, ultrawide VR headsets, immersive video tools, XR network twins, Niantic’s Quest 3 SDK, and a $20M robot OS round.
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🔓 Remix Reality Insider: From World-Building to Living Worlds
In this drop we explore how generative AI is redefining immersive worlds, from Genie 3’s real-time 3D scenes to Meta’s AI tools for VR creators. We decode AR design lessons from Snap’s Spectacles and scan breakthroughs in physical AI, simulated worlds, and perception systems.
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These AR Experiments on Spectacles are a Glimpse at What’s Coming
Snap’s fifth-generation Spectacles ’24 give developers a powerful AR platform with waveguide displays, dual Snapdragon chips, spatial audio, and advanced sensors, enabling immersive, hands-free experiences built around embodied interaction, AI-driven assistance, and real-world play.
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Meta to Unveil Ultra-Realistic and Ultrawide VR Headsets at SIGGRAPH 2025
Next week at SIGGRAPH 2025, Meta will present two research headsets, Tiramisu and Boba 3, each pushing VR realism in different directions.
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When Your Robot Does the Laundry, What Will You Do?
Surveys show demand for robots to handle cleaning, laundry, and cooking, but caution over cost, trust, and caregiving remains, even as experts predict 40% of household work could be automated within a decade.
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Prophesee Sensor Powers 7invensun’s New High-Speed Eye Tracker
7invensun has built its new aSee Glasses-EVS wearable around Prophesee’s GenX320, an event-based vision sensor. The device captures eye movement with millisecond-level precision, enabling detection of microsaccades and rapid gaze shifts in real time.
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Blackmagic Adds Immersive Video Tools to DaVinci Resolve for Apple Vision Pro
Blackmagic Design has added immersive video capabilities to DaVinci Resolve Studio on macOS, enabling a full post-production workflow for Apple Vision Pro. The update supports stereoscopic 3D video shot with the URSA Cine Immersive camera