📬 Remix Reality Weekly: Apple's Next Era Needs Vision

Your free Friday drop of spatial computing updates—plus what Remix Reality Insiders unlocked this week.

🛰️ The Signal

This week’s defining shift.

XR is a practical tool for reducing real-world risk.

It helps people see what they are dealing with before they commit to a choice or an action. Teams can spot problems before they happen, drivers can get comfortable with harder scenarios before hitting the road, and shoppers can get a better feel for fit and style before purchase. Better awareness at the start tends to pay off later.

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📡 Weekly Radar

Your weekly scan across the spatial computing stack.

🤓 Meta Opens Developer Preview for AI Glasses Toolkit

• Developers can now prototype mobile app integrations using the camera, microphone, and audio features of Meta’s AI glasses.

🚕 Waymo Expands Testing Operations Across Four New U.S. Cities

• Manual driving begins in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore as Waymo prepares for future service.

🚗 NVIDIA Releases Open Reasoning Model to Support Safer Autonomous Driving

• DRIVE Alpamayo-R1 combines chain-of-thought reasoning with path planning to handle complex road scenarios.

🤖 Tutor Intelligence Raises $34M to Expand Robot Workforce and Intelligence Platform

• Tutor Intelligence secured $34 million in Series A funding led by Union Square Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42 million.

👓 Cellid Unveils AR Glasses Reference Designs With Mass-Produced Plastic Waveguide

• New reference designs pair in-house plastic and glass waveguides with compact AR form factors.

🏥 MediView Cleared to Bring Mixed Reality Imaging to European Hospitals

• MediView has received CE mark certification, clearing its spatial computing platform for clinical use in Europe.

🚙 SC State Opens VR Lab to Train Safer Commercial Drivers

• South Carolina State University opened a new simulation facility to advance training and research in transportation safety.

🌐 RP1 Opens Spatial Web Platform to Developers

• Developers can now build and host their own 3D environments that link into RP1’s real-time, shared spatial network.

🌊 Fujitsu Deploys Digital Twin to Certify Blue Carbon in Coastal Ecosystems

• Fujitsu's system combines drones, AI, and simulation to measure blue carbon faster and without expert personnel.

🛠 RealSense and AVerMedia Debut All-in-One Vision Kit to Speed Robotics Development

• The SenseEdge Development Kit combines RealSense depth cameras with NVIDIA Jetson-powered compute hardware in a pre-integrated system.

🎥 ByteDance Releases Depth Anything 3, a Simpler Way to Reconstruct 3D Scenes from Images or Video

• ByteDance Seed Team released Depth Anything 3, a vision model that reconstructs 3D scenes from single images, multi-view inputs, or video.

🛍️ Tom Ford Fashion Integrates AR Try-On Into E-Commerce Experience

• Tom Ford Fashion is rolling out Perfect Corp.’s AR-powered eyewear try-on tool across its U.S., Canadian, and European online stores.

🌀 Tom's Take

Unfiltered POV from the editor-in-chief.

Previous reports by The Financial Times that Apple may be preparing for an eventual leadership transition got me thinking about what the next CEO will actually need. Vision is the big one. We are entering the next wave of computing, one that moves technology from behind the screen into the real world. This is new territory for everyone, and it is not the time for legacy thinking. The next leader has to think outside the box, quite literally. At the same time, they need a sense of how fast to guide the market. Timing matters. As this shift is as significant as the birth of computing, people will need to be eased into this future, not overwhelmed by it.

There are a few areas that stand out as priorities for the next decade based on public market trends and Apple’s broader direction.

AI is a major one. Apple is well-positioned with its focus on design, privacy, and a powerful ecosystem to take what is happening with LLMs and make it more user-friendly. A better UX, local processing, and safety will matter. Apple also has an opportunity to personalize AI by tapping into the many touchpoints it already has with its users. The next step is enriching it with multimodal context from sensors like cameras and microphones in our homes, on our bodies, and in our pockets. That layer of context is where things get interesting and will be lucrative for Apple's own apps as well as its wider developer ecosystem.

XR is another big area. Vision Pro is a strong start with room to grow. The challenge with any mixed reality headset is finding value that justifies wearing something bulky. There is a clear opportunity in the enterprise right now, especially since the AR enterprise market has thinned out. On the consumer side, the killer apps still need to emerge. Vision Pro is already showing strength in entertainment. One immediate path could be reframing it as a next-generation Apple TV, a simpler entertainment device that helps people understand why they should buy it and then grow the use cases from there.

At the same time, Apple needs to prepare for our post-smartphone future, which is built around smartglasses. This begins with AI glasses. The AI glasses category today feels similar to smartwatches in 2015 when Apple introduced the Apple Watch, primed for its entry. AI glasses would be a strong iPhone companion, especially if they feature an easy handoff from frames to the phone. They would also give Apple Intelligence eyes and ears on the world with their onboard sensors. Once AI glasses prove their value, displays and full AR features can follow as the technology matures and consumers are more ready for them.

Further out, I can see Apple exploring robotics as humanoids in particular move from science fiction into early reality. Apple’s focus on sensors, on-device intelligence, and hardware-software integration gives it a strong foundation to step into this space.

The next decade will push technology further into the world around us. Any company working in this space will need leadership that understands the scale of this shift and can move toward it at the right pace.

🔒 What Insiders Got This Week

This week’s Insider drop included:

• 🧠 Reality Decoded: A look at how public, enterprise, and startup groups are stepping up their investment in physical AI.
• 🔮 What’s Next: Close-range vision becomes a priority; AI-enabled 3D tools plug into existing pipelines; and 3D product twins become central to modern commerce.

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