📬 Remix Reality Weekly: Party Mode for Mixed Reality

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

🛰️ The Signal

This week’s defining shift.

Vision-language models (VLMs) are the next frontier for AI, giving machines the ability to understand what they see.

VLMs combine what the camera sees with AI to add context. This turns raw visual input into information that can be applied in practical ways, from managing inventory to helping robots adapt in the home.

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

📡 Weekly Radar

Your weekly scan across the spatial computing stack.

🍔 Circus SE and Secura Partner to Deploy Autonomous Meal Robots

• Circus SE will launch its CA-1 autonomous meal robot in partnership with Secura, beginning at Ingolstadt’s Quartier G innovation hub.

🚗 Isuzu to Open Japan’s First Autonomous Truck Test Course by a Commercial Vehicle Maker

• Isuzu will open a 190,000 m² test site in Hokkaido in 2027 to trial its Level 4 autonomous trucks and buses in controlled, complex traffic scenarios.

🏠 Horizon Update Brings New Immersive Home and Expanded Horizon Central to Meta Quest

• Meta Quest’s Horizon OS update debuts a new Immersive Home and retires older environments.

🏥 zSpace and The Glimpse Group Launch Virtual Trainer for Medical Assisting Skills

• Virtual Trainer enables students to practice 33 certified medical tasks in a virtual environment.

🧊 3D Gaussian Splats Added to glTF with Support from Khronos, OGC, and Niantic

• Khronos and partners added 3D Gaussian splat support to glTF using two new extensions.

🛠️ Tripo 3.0 Launches With New Features for Scalable 3D Creation

• Tripo debuts its most advanced 3D foundation model, adding precision texture control, segmentation, and multi-modal input to its AI-native platform.

☕ Starbucks Activates Visual AI for Inventory in North America

• Starbucks is finalizing a North American rollout of a visual AI-driven system that digitizes in-store inventory tracking.

🍽️ Helix Adds Dishwasher Loading to Figure 02’s Skillset

• Helix, the model running on Figure 02, learned to load dishwashers using only new data with no algorithm update needed.

🥤 Coca-Cola Augmented Reality Campaign Turns You Into a Star Wars Hologram

• Fans can scan special-edition cans to unlock a Star Wars-themed AR experience.

♿ Irvine Deploys Daxbot Robots to Audit Sidewalk Accessibility

• Autonomous units will survey sidewalks and curb ramps to support the city's ADA compliance review.

🌀 Tom's Take

Unfiltered POV from the editor-in-chief.

Headsets today do a good job of connecting people who aren’t in the same room. But are we leaving the people right next to us behind? The focus of these devices has been mainly on telepresence, but the real breakthrough may come from sharing a new reality with the people already in the room.

MR headsets are great for meeting, collaborating, or playing with friends miles away, but they still struggle to include the people sitting beside you. Unless your friend owns a headset and brings it over, or you are a family that bought more than one device, the virtual experience in a shared physical space is mostly a solo one.

Right now, the only way to engage with others who are in the room with you is by casting your view to a TV and having them shout at you between realities. That breaks immersion and turns shared time from something social into more of a spectacle. Ironically, the same technology that connects people across distance falls short when everyone is in the same room.

OEMs could change this by offering bundles of two or four devices that unlock group experiences. Imagine families going to a virtual movie together, friends watching a live sports event from the couch, or neighbors taking game night to the next level when they come over. These bundles would need to be affordable and centered on content that brings people together. The challenge is cost, but solving for this could be the step that finally gets more people into headsets.

🔒 What Insiders Got This Week

This week’s Insider drop included:

• 🧠 Reality Decoded: Waymo's expansion beyond fair-weather cities.
• 🔮 What’s Next: Robots as large-scale sensors; 3D powers immersive content creation; and smartglasses focus on multi-use.

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