📬 Remix Reality Weekly: The Metaverse Was the Signal, Not the Destination
Your free Friday drop of spatial computing updates—plus what Remix Reality Insiders unlocked this week.
🛰️ The Signal
This week’s defining shift.
Fashion brands are the on-ramp for everyday wearables.
Instead of leading with technology, wearables must focus on identity, aesthetic, and form in order to be adopted. Fashion brands play a critical role in this next wave of computing. Smart features need to be woven into products people already want to wear, whether that’s eyewear for indoor training, rings for health tracking, or glasses designed to house your AI assistant. To succeed, wearables must feel less like gadgets and more like extensions of our personal style and routine.
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📡 Weekly Radar
Your weekly scan across the spatial computing stack.
✈️ NASA Backs Reliable Robotics to Test Autonomous Flights Near Airports
- Reliable Robotics will conduct autonomous flight tests using its Cessna 208B Caravan to simulate both standard and emergency operations in active airspace.
👂 Meta Acquires Limitless, Creator of AI Wearable Pendant
- Limitless, maker of the Pendant wearable, spent five years developing tools to augment human memory and focus.
🍔 Serve Robotics Brings Autonomous Delivery to Fort Lauderdale with Uber Eats
- Serve Robotics has extended its sidewalk robot service to Fort Lauderdale, enabling food deliveries through Uber Eats in key neighborhoods.
🤖 1X and EQT to Deploy 10,000 Humanoid Robots Across Global Portfolio
- Up to 10,000 robots will be offered to EQT’s portfolio companies between 2026 and 2030.
🧤 SenseGlove Launches Exoskeleton Glove for Robotic Control and Force-Based Training
- SenseGlove has released the R1, an exoskeleton glove that enables real-time robotic control and force-based training through tactile feedback.
- Google confirmed it is working on two types of AI glasses with partners, one with a screen and the other without.
🚗 Kia Unveils AR-Enhanced Concept Car at 80th Anniversary Event
- Vision Meta Turismo introduces AR HUD with three digital driving experiences.
🧠 Vinci Raises $46M for AI System That Simulates Chips 1000x Faster
- Vinci’s software runs chip simulations up to 1000 times faster than traditional tools, without meshing or customer data.
🎬 Journey Acquires Dimension to Strengthen Capabilities in Virtual and Immersive Production
- Dimension joins Journey’s network of studios focused on design, media, and next-generation content production.
⚕️ GE HealthCare and Mayo Clinic Launch GEMINI-RT Centered on Patient “Twinning” in Radiation Therapy
- GEMINI-RT uses imaging, AI, and monitoring to support tailored cancer treatment across planning, delivery, and follow-up.
📷 Stereolabs Unveils ZED X One S and Core Cameras for Compact, Rugged Robot Vision
- Stereolabs has launched the ZED X One S and ZED X One Core, new vision systems tailored for constrained and harsh robotics environments.
📊 Momentum Unifies Wearable Data With Open API for Health Context and Intelligence
- Open-source API transforms fragmented wearable inputs into structured, context-aware health intelligence.
🌀 Tom's Take
Unfiltered POV from the editor-in-chief.
Lately, I’ve seen a wave of reports declaring the metaverse is dead (again) and, by extension, questioning the future of VR. I think that framing misses what is actually happening. What’s fading is not the underlying technology, but a narrow idea of what the metaverse represents. The real shift is that computing is moving into the physical world, where the same stack now shows up as "spatial computing."
We are seeing momentum around physical AI, including robotics, autonomous vehicles, and AI wearables, and renewed interest in AR, especially as glasses feel even closer to reality. These systems operate in the real world, augmenting it rather than replacing it. But the truth behind it all is that they all use the same technologies that power VR. It's just that VR focuses more on moving further into the virtual world with the same ingredients. Computer vision, real-time 3D, sensors, and spatial mapping are a few of the foundational elements found in this next wave, from humanoid robots to smartglasses.
The confusion, I believe, comes from treating the new set of emerging technologies, including VR, AR, and AI, as separate categories competing for relevance. In reality, they are converging. Together, they form the next wave of computing. Spatial computing. This shift is about technology understanding space, context, and presence, and responding accordingly. This applies to VR as much as it does to AR, robotics, and the wave of autonomy across industries.
For me, the metaverse was never a single game, a virtual world, or an NFT economy. As I wrote in my 2023 trends, the metaverse was more of an aha moment. A realization that a new stack of technologies, including AI, AR, VR, IoT, and others, is working together to change our relationship with machines. That change anchors around presence. Where we become more present while using our technology, and more importantly, technology becomes more present in our physical reality: seeing, hearing, moving, and acting in the world alongside us.
The metaverse isn’t dead. It just stopped being the headline. And this gives it the opportunity to move beyond its original limited (and often misunderstood) definition to one that more properly illustrates where computing is moving. Spatial, embodied, and present in the physical world.
🔒 What Insiders Got This Week
This week’s Insider drop included:
- 🧠 Reality Decoded: Highlights from our interview with CEO and founder of Chef Robotics, Rajat Bhageria, on automating the food industry.
- 🔮 What’s Next: Humanoid robots reach production and deployment; automakers are turning vehicles into intelligent spatial systems; and global capital accelerates humanoid robot industrialization.
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