📬 Remix Reality Weekly: Humans to the Rescue

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

🛰️ The Signal

This week’s defining shift.

Spatial computing is stepping onto the frontlines of human safety.

From shipyards to explosive industrial zones, machines are taking on new roles to protect people, either by enhancing their capabilities in the case of AR or by stepping in when the risks are too high through the power of robotics.

👉 Get access to the full insight in this week’s Insider drop.

📡 Weekly Radar

Your weekly scan across the spatial computing stack.

🥗 Chef Robotics and Proseal Partner on Flexible Meal Line Automation

• Chef Robotics and Proseal have partnered on a flexible system that automates both meal assembly and packaging for fresh and frozen foods.

🏬 Meta Lab Retail Store Returns to LA, Adds Pop-Ups in Las Vegas and NYC

• The spaces will offer demos of AI glasses and headsets, including Meta Ray-Ban Display and Meta Neural Band.

🚗 Waymo Safety Gains Climb, Now Reports 91% Fewer Serious Crashes Than Humans

• Waymo’s latest report shows a 91% reduction in serious injury crashes compared to an average human driver over the same distance, up from 88% reported in March.

🎓 Purdue University Opens Research Facility and Certificates for Spatial Computing

• Purdue University opened a new spatial computing hub powered by Apple Vision Pro to support immersive research and training.

👓 Crowdfunders Flock to Rokid’s Lightweight AR Glasses, Surpassing $2M

• The device features dual Micro LED waveguide displays, an open AI ecosystem, and weighs significantly less than Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses, according to the company.

🏗️ Augmentir Adds AR Capabilities to Boost Industrial Workforce Training and Support

• Augmentir has introduced a new Augmented Reality extension focused on immersive onboarding, real-time task guidance, and skills support.

🌍 Nilo Raises $4M to Expand AI-Native 3D Creation Platform

• The platform targets Gen Alpha with AI-powered, browser-based tools for creating multiplayer 3D worlds from natural prompts.

🎮 Niantic Spatial and Kojima Productions Join Forces on Real-World Storytelling

• The collaboration aims to bring Kojima’s narrative experiences into the real world using geospatial AI.

🌱 Earthmover Raises $7.2M to Power Physical AI With Scientific Data Infrastructure

• The company enables faster model training and simulation development across climate, weather, and other scientific domains.

🤖 Figure Launches Project Go-Big to Build World’s Largest Humanoid Training Dataset

• Project Go-Big captures large-scale, real-world human video to train Helix, Figure’s Vision-Language-Action model.

👀 Be My Eyes Helped Shape Meta's New Wearables SDK

• Be My Eyes partnered with Meta as an alpha collaborator to co-develop the Wearables Device Access Toolkit.

🌀 Tom's Take

Unfiltered POV from the editor-in-chief.

Lately, my TikTok feed has been filled with videos of food delivery robots in distress and humans swooping in to save them. This role switch is the complete opposite of the robot story we are used to seeing in movies. In watching scenes of robots tipped over on sidewalks or taking the wrong turn and heading into traffic, what strikes me the most in these videos is not the failure of the tech, but the reaction of the people nearby. Almost every clip shows strangers rushing in to help. They lift the robot back onto its wheels, guide it across the street, or stop cars to let it pass.

It got me thinking about how quickly we can form attachments to machines. Is it because they have a lifelike design? Delivery bots with eyes, like those from Serve Robotics, or legs, like those from RIVR, can feel more like pets than vehicles or appliances. And their clear intent on completing a task gives the impression that the machine is somehow intelligent, even sentient. Add a touch of personality, like cute noises that react to your voice or actions, and our instinct to help is easily triggered.

These videos are not just about saving someone's order of burritos. It is about the social contracts we’re beginning to build with machines in public spaces. As robots become part of our daily lives, we are finding out that trust and care flow both ways. We expect them to work safely and reliably, and when they stumble, it turns out we’re surprisingly willing to lend a hand.

🔒 What Insiders Got This Week

This week’s Insider drop included:

• 🧠 Reality Decoded: Why smartglasses need physical retail to succeed.
• 🔮 What’s Next: Spatial video makes a comeback; OLED reshapes immersive displays; and autonomous vehicles double down on safety.

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