📬 Remix Reality Weekly: The Bathroom Test for Physical AI

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

🛰️ The Signal

This week’s defining shift.

AI is outgrowing the screen and reaching into our world, ushering in the era of Physical AI.

The next chapter of computing won’t stay inside your computer or hover in the cloud. It will exist in the physical world, built into the tools we use today and the new devices of tomorrow. This isn’t science fiction. It’s the rise of embodied intelligence where technology becomes part of the world itself. And it has already started. We are seeing it show up across sectors, including consumer devices, cars, and factories.

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📡 Weekly Radar

Your weekly scan across the spatial computing stack.

🚗 Waymo Begins Testing at Newark Airport as Service Footprint Widens

• Waymo has started manual testing at Newark Liberty International Airport through a new collaboration with The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey.

🚕 Avride Lands $375M for Robotaxi and Delivery Robot Expansion with Uber, Nebius

• Avride will expand its robotaxi and delivery operations through a multiyear Uber partnership, with Dallas launches planned by the end of 2025.

📦 Blue Jay and Eluna Signal a New Phase in Amazon's Robotics Strategy

• Amazon introduced Blue Jay and Project Eluna to support warehouse employees through robotic coordination and agentic AI.

📱 HONOR’s Robotic Phone Concept Redefines the Smartphone

• Chinese consumer electronics company HONOR teased a new smartphone form factor, the HONOR ROBOT PHONE, at its recent launch event in China.

🕶️ Samsung Introduces Galaxy XR, Its First Device on Android XR

• Galaxy XR is Samsung’s first mixed reality headset and the debut device for the new Android XR platform, available now for $1,799.99.

✈️ First Air Ambulance Operator in the Americas Adopts VR Simulator for Pilot Training

• PHI Air Medical is now training pilots with Loft Dynamics’ full-motion VR system, marking a shift from traditional simulators.

📫 Amazon Announces Development of AI-Powered Delivery Glasses

• Smartglasses built for Delivery Associates enable hands-free package scanning, navigation, and proof of delivery without phone use.

🎮 Odders Lab Gets Funding to Focus on Smartglasses and AR

• Odders Lab announces it has secured funding of an undisclosed amount from CaixaBank’s DayOne and Axon Partners Group.

🛠️ Unity Rolls Out Official Android XR Tools for Galaxy XR

• Developers can now build or adapt Unity apps for Android XR using official tools for spatial features like face tracking, hand input, and occlusion.

🎥 World Labs Debuts RTFM, a Real-Time Generative World Model

• RTFM is a real-time generative World Model that creates interactive 3D video from a single image or video input.

📊 Cognitive3D Brings Enterprise-Grade XR Analytics to the Browser

• New SDK enables detailed session tracking, gaze capture, and performance metrics for WebXR content.

🏠 Pillsbury Doughboy Turns 60 With First AR Home Tour and Merch Drop

• Pillsbury launched an AR experience that lets fans explore the Doughboy’s home for his 60th birthday.

🌀 Tom's Take

Unfiltered POV from the editor-in-chief.

When Kohler unveiled its Dekoda smart toilet camera this week, the internet lost its mind, and I get it. A camera hooked on the side of your porcelain throne in a room designed for complete privacy is unnerving. A sensor for your #2s was an easy target, and many online took the bait. But the outrage points to something deeper. We still haven’t agreed on what it means to live in a world surrounded by sensors.

Every new wave of computing tests our boundaries. The smartphone put a connected camera in every hand. Smart speakers put microphones in every room. Now, Physical AI wants to put perception (sensors + AI) into everything around us. And the hard truth is, for this next technological shift to work, we need computers to see, hear, and understand the physical world, and to do that, it will require a bunch of cameras and sensors everywhere. That’s what makes AI “physical.”

The rub is that the same sensors that enable embodied intelligence also challenge our most basic expectations of privacy. A camera that can help a robot navigate our kitchen or a doorbell that identifies our missing dog is, technically, the same tool that can watch us without consent. And on top of it, we are not the only ones with access to that data, nor often have complete insight into how it is being used.

We’re entering a moment that demands a new social contract for Physical AI. This one needs to define how much visibility we are willing to give our tech in trade for utility, safety, or care. Social contracts require much more than regulation and governance frameworks. They are built on trust, which can only be earned through a system grounded in human-centric design and consent, and consistently demonstrated benefits that far outweigh the risks.

Physical AI will only scale if people trust the systems sensing their world. Kohler’s toilet camera feels creepy today, but if we want to benefit from AI living in our surroundings, the real work ahead isn’t in the hardware or software. It’s in making devices like these feel safe, normal, and necessary.

🔒 What Insiders Got This Week

This week’s Insider drop included:

• 🧠 Reality Decoded: A look at our first editorial from new contributor Richard Pallardy on precision agriculture.
• 🔮 What’s Next: Android XR makes its debut with Galaxy XR; physical AI is taking on real work; and robotaxis find a road into Europe

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