📬 Remix Reality Weekly: Physical AI Ad Space

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

🛰️ The Signal

This week’s defining shift.

Generative AI is transforming immersive world development, not just how fast we build them, but what they can be.

New AI systems are no longer just speeding up production. They’re opening up new ways to imagine, design, and interact with virtual spaces. From text-to-3D scene generation to AI-assisted scripting and visual style control, creators can build rich, interactive environments in minutes, and those worlds can now evolve in ways that weren’t possible before.

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

📡 Weekly Radar

Your weekly scan across the spatial computing stack.

❤️‍🩹 Fourier Introduces GR-3, a Humanoid Robot Focused on Emotional Interaction and Care

• GR-3 is a full-size “Care-bot” developed to support both functional tasks and emotional engagement across public, clinical, and personal settings.

🏠 ABB Robots and Cosmic Microfactories Rebuild Wildfire-Hit Homes in L.A.

• ABB and Cosmic are building homes in Pacific Palisades using a mobile robotic microfactory launched after the 2025 wildfires.

🚗 Humanoid Robot Achieves Milestone in Autonomously Opening Car Door

• AiMOGA Robotics' Mornine used reinforcement learning and onboard sensors to open a car door without scripts or a remote control.

👓 Meta to Unveil Ultra-Realistic and Ultrawide VR Headsets at SIGGRAPH 2025

• Meta’s Reality Labs Research will debut two advanced VR prototypes—Tiramisu and Boba 3—offering major leaps in image quality and field of view.

⚡ Enel Green Power Adopts VR Vision Training for Global Renewable Tech Teams

• VR Vision is building virtual reality training simulations for Enel Green Power technicians working on turbines, substations, and solar farms.

🎥 Blackmagic Adds Immersive Video Tools to DaVinci Resolve for Apple Vision Pro

• DaVinci Resolve now supports editing, grading, VFX, and spatial audio for Apple Immersive Video.

📡 Nokia Introduces XR Radio Network Solution for Digital Twin Visualization

• Nokia has launched a new XR-based tool that enables mobile operators to view and manage digital versions of their radio networks.

🗺️ Niantic Spatial SDK Adds Meta Quest 3 Support with Passthrough Camera Access

• Niantic Spatial introduces beta support for Meta Quest 3, unlocking core spatial computing tools like VPS, live meshing, and object detection.

🤖 OpenMind Raises $20M to Launch Hardware-Agnostic OS for Robots

• OpenMind closed a $20 million round led by Pantera Capital to scale OM1, its operating system for intelligent machines.

🌀 Tom's Take

Unfiltered POV from the editor-in-chief.

We often talk about physical AI changing how we move, deliver, and interact with the world, but what’s also becoming evident is that it’s building an entirely new media network in plain sight.

Coco Robotics’ sidewalk delivery bots wrapped in movie branding are just the start. The idea of turning robots into rolling billboards isn’t new, but now these machines are hyper-local, measurable, and interactive. You don’t just see them pass by your house. Instead, they are coming to your door and asking you to interact with them. That’s an entirely different kind of engagement from a static bus shelter ad or a car driving by with a large video screen.

Like delivery robots, autonomous vehicles are the next frontier in marketing. We’ve spent decades thinking of AVs as just transportation, but they’re also fully immersive, mobile environments. Imagine a Starbucks-branded car that serves drinks on the way to work, or an Xbox car where your commute becomes a playable game session. These are experiential campaigns on wheels, monetizing our idle travel time in ways traditional advertising couldn't imagine.

And then there are humanoid robots, which are on the horizon. Today, we think about them folding laundry or carrying groceries, but there’s nothing stopping them from being ad-supported. Imagine a free or subsidized robot helper that occasionally suggests a product, books a service, or runs a sponsored errand, mixed right into your daily interactions. Done right, it wouldn’t feel like a pop-up ad. It would feel like a personal recommendation from a trusted assistant.

The media industry has always followed attention. Physical AI is moving that attention into motion, on sidewalks, in vehicles, and soon in our homes. The real opportunity is in blending utility and storytelling at these new touchpoints while keeping the trust that makes them work.

🔒 What Insiders Got This Week

This week’s Insider drop included:

• 🧠 Reality Decoded: What early experiments on Spectacles teach us about our post-smartphone future.
• 🔮 What’s Next: Mobile AR is accelerating in growth; flat-screen content is steeping into XR; and scaling physical AI starts with trust and safety.

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