📬 Remix Reality Weekly: The Unsung Hero of XR

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

🛰️ The Signal

This week’s defining shift.

Service robots are on the job and delivering real results.

They’re proving their value through clear performance. The systems making progress today are the ones delivering measurable, repeatable gains in places where consistency matters. Companies are sharing hard numbers that point to real operational impact across kitchens, stores, and construction sites.

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

📡 Weekly Radar

Your weekly scan across the spatial computing stack.

🚔 Knightscope Expands Product Line with K7 Outdoor Security Robot

• The new K7 robot is built to patrol large outdoor areas and operate around the clock across uneven terrain.

🧼 KEENON Rolls Out C55 Robot for Autonomous Indoor Floor Cleaning

• The KLEENBOT C55 handles sweeping, scrubbing, and suction with automated docking and full remote control.

🗄️ Foxglove Secures $40M to Advance Data Infrastructure for Physical AI

• Foxglove has announced a $40 million Series B round to scale its data and observability platform tailored to Physical AI. 

🤖 iHeartMedia Backs Miko Robotics in Series D Funding Round

• iHeartMedia has invested in Miko’s Series D funding round to support the growth of its AI companion robots.

🎮 Valve Unveils Steam Frame, a Wireless VR Headset Built for the Full Steam Library

• Steam Frame is a standalone VR headset that runs SteamOS and plays both VR and non-VR games directly on the device, with no PC required.

💍 Even Realities Introduces G2 Smartglasses and R1 Ring with Built-In AI Assistant

• G2 is a binocular heads-up display with AI-powered tools, while R1 is a smart ring that enables discreet control and real-time health tracking.

🏊 FORM Launches HeadCoach 2.0 with Real-Time Coaching in Smart Swim Goggles

• FORM’s upgraded coaching suite delivers tailored, in-goggle swim feedback based on each athlete’s goals and performance.

🌐 World Labs Makes Marble Public for Multimodal 3D World Generation

• Marble is a multimodal generative model that creates full 3D worlds from text, images, video, or 3D layouts.

🎹 ROLI Acquires Ultraleap to Advance Gesture-Based Music Tech

• ROLI has acquired Ultraleap, integrating its mid-air haptics and hand-tracking technology into ROLI's music platform.

🌀 Tom's Take

Unfiltered POV from the editor-in-chief.

The past two months have brought a wave of new spatial devices, from Valve’s latest VR hardware to Samsung’s Galaxy XR and a range of AI glasses from Meta, Even Realities, and others. With all this activity, it’s easy to focus only on what’s ahead. But Snap’s latest numbers on AR usage are a reminder of something simple. Augmented reality is already part of daily life. It has been here for years and has become so common that we barely talk about it.

Snapchat deserves real credit for that. Back in 2015, they made AR mainstream by turning Lenses into a core part of social media. Fast forward to today, and Snap says more than 350 million people use AR on Snapchat every day, triggering about 8 billion Lens interactions per day. Once we all spewed rainbows from our mouths, filters and lenses became routine rather than emerging technology. More importantly, they shaped how people mix digital content with the physical world, which will play a key role in how we adopt post-smartphone devices like smartglasses and handle the growing volume of AI content.

Decorating ourselves with AR on social media also paved the way for uses that now feel commonplace, such as virtual try-on for shopping or AR wayfinding to navigate a city. Mobile AR changed how people explore and buy products. It made what many still think of as a technology of tomorrow, a mundane tool of today.

I like to think that AR filters are playing a role in preparing us for the wave of AI-generated content now filling our feeds. We’ve spent years navigating visuals that weren’t entirely real. That experience might help build the awareness needed to interpret what is genuine reality and what is not, at a time when generative images and video are everywhere.

Mobile AR has become the unsung hero of XR. It’s so baked into how we communicate, create, and shop that we barely notice it anymore. That familiarity is also why the flood of generative AI content doesn’t feel as jarring as it could have. We’ve spent years blending digital elements into the real world through a phone screen. That normalcy is what will help AR glasses fit in when they arrive. They won’t feel like a leap. They’ll feel like the next step in habits we already practice every day, carried forward by the quiet success of mobile AR.

🔒 What Insiders Got This Week

This week’s Insider drop included:

• 🧠 Reality Decoded: A deep dive into digital twins moving from mirroring reality to predicting the future.
• 🔮 What’s Next: Spatial inputs that match everyday movements; AVs open new routes across cities; and spatial tech earns clinical trust.

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