📬 Remix Reality Weekly: Rethinking the Rider Experience

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

🛰️ The Signal

This week’s defining shift.

Creating 3D data is getting much simpler.

New tools are turning everyday inputs like smartphone video, single photos, and text prompts into usable 3D environments and assets. This lowers the barrier to building the scenes, objects, and spaces that robotics, simulation, and immersive content rely on. It also shifts 3D creation from a specialized skill to something all teams can generate quickly and at the scale modern spatial systems require.

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📡 Weekly Radar

Your weekly scan across the spatial computing stack.

🤖 Agile Robots Acquires thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering in Major Expansion Move

• Agile Robots is acquiring thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering’s assets in Europe and North America to grow its smart automation business.

⚡️ Drone Volt US Unveils LineDrone to Cut Grid Inspection Costs and Prevent Wildfires

• New robotic drone inspects live power lines without shutdowns, helicopters, or manual tool changes.

🥗 Wonder Acquires Spyce From Sweetgreen in $186M Deal

• Sweetgreen sold its Spyce business to Wonder for $186.4 million in cash and equity.

🚘 Figure’s Humanoid Robot Supports Production of 30,000 BMW Vehicles

• Figure 02 ran daily shifts at BMW’s Spartanburg plant, loading over 90,000 parts as part of a live assembly line deployment.

⚽️ Immersive Skiing and Soccer Stories Coming to Apple Vision Pro

• Red Bull launches a new immersive video series on December 4, starting with a freeskiing experience in British Columbia.

🦵 $10M Gift Backs Development of HSS Digital Twin Platform for Joint Surgery Simulation

• Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) will use the funding to develop a virtual modeling system for orthopedic surgical planning.

🚧 Buildroid AI Launches With $2M to Simulate Construction Robotics Using Digital Twins

• The company exits stealth with funding led by Tim Draper and support from U.S. general contractors.

🗺️ Point One Raises $35M to Expand Global Footprint of Precision Location Platform

• Series C funding led by Khosla Ventures will support hiring, international growth, and product development.

🪑 Meta Introduces SAM 3D to Reconstruct Objects and Humans from a Single Image

• Meta debuts SAM 3D, introducing two new models for reconstructing 3D objects and human bodies from natural images.

🕶️ LSU-Led Study Uses VR To Help Students With ADHD Stay Focused

• LSU Associate Professor David Shepherd secured $675K from NIMH to expand ADHD research using virtual reality and noise-canceling headphones.

🌀 Tom's Take

Unfiltered POV from the editor-in-chief.

Zoox is now running in San Francisco, and I’m getting ready for my first ride. It’ll be my first time in a vehicle purpose-built for autonomy, and I’m curious how different it will feel. I ride Waymo now on the regular, but the experience it offers is still a familiar car, where the steering wheel and four seats facing the windshield remain the same. Zoox flips that. No front seat, no dash, no orientation toward a driver. The space is built for the people riding, not the person who used to be in control.

That change opens up a very different design conversation for vehicles. Once you remove the driver, a car becomes more like a small room that moves. You can rethink seating, lighting, sound, displays, and how people interact with each other. You can design for comfort, quiet, conversation, or productivity instead of designing around pedals and windshield visibility. It turns mobility into a UX problem rather than a vehicle layout problem, and shifts the focus from function to feel, which is much more interesting.

This is a part of autonomous mobility that gets exciting for me. When you stop optimizing for the driver, you can start building for the rider. The whole experience becomes a blank canvas, letting us rethink something we’ve lived with for more than a century. What should a ride feel like? How do you make the space useful? What opportunities does this open for businesses and brands? Purpose-built AVs give us room to ask questions the automotive world never had the freedom to explore.

🔒 What Insiders Got This Week

This week’s Insider drop included:

• 🧠 Reality Decoded: Key takeaways from our conversation with Cirque du Soleil and The Sandbox on entering the metaverse.
• 🔮 What’s Next: Humanoids learn from real or synthetic data; robotaxis gain economic and regulatory momentum; and simulation as the first step in critical operations.

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