📬 Remix Reality Weekly: XR and the Future of Being Together

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

🛰️ The Signal

This week’s defining shift.

Software is turning installed hardware into new machines.

A growing share of progress in spatial computing is no longer coming from new devices, but from new software unlocking capabilities inside hardware people already own. Performance, reach, and behavior are being rewritten after deployment.

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

📡 Weekly Radar

Your weekly scan across the spatial computing stack.

🤖 Boston Dynamics’ Atlas to Make First Public Appearance at CES 2026

• Hyundai Motor Group will unveil its AI Robotics Strategy at CES 2026, and Boston Dynamics will bring the new Atlas robot out of the lab and onto the stage for the first time.

🏭 MyCo Robots Extend Comau’s Collaborative Push in Manufacturing

• The six-model MyCo series offers reach spans from 590 mm to 1300 mm and payload capacities between 3 kg and 15 kg.

💰 Galbot Raises $300M, Reaches $3B Valuation with Global Investor Backing

• Galbot secured over $300 million in new funding, bringing total funding to $800 million and valuing the company at $3 billion.

🪡 TARS Robot Crosses 'Impossible to Automate' Threshold with Embroidery Demo

• TARS Robotics publicly demonstrated a humanoid robot completing hand embroidery with both hands in real time.

🎧 Meta AI Glasses Update Adds Voice Boost and Multimodal Spotify Playback

• New software feature amplifies voices to improve conversations in noisy environments.

🕶️ Bigscreen Brings Dynamic Foveated Rendering to Beyond 2e in Early Access

• Bigscreen has released Dynamic Foveated Rendering in early access for the Beyond 2e headset through the Bigscreen Beyond Utility.

💄 Banuba Boosts Face AR SDK with Precision Backgrounds and Facial Contour Mapping

• Banuba has enhanced its Face AR SDK with cleaner virtual backgrounds and a new face shape detection module.

🧑‍🚀 XPANCEO Demonstrates Space-Compatible Smart Contact Lens

• XPANCEO has unveiled a smart contact lens prototype for space, integrated with a working space suit to provide hands-free visual data directly to the eye.

🍎 Apple’s SHARP Turns a Single Image into a 3D Scene in Under a Second

• SHARP creates a detailed 3D scene from one photo using a fast neural network that runs in real time on standard hardware.

🎥 mimic-video Uses Pretrained Video Models to Improve Robot Learning Efficiency by 10x

• mimic-video is a video-action model that reduces data needs for robot learning.

🌀 Tom's Take

Unfiltered POV from the editor-in-chief.

One of the first killer applications of XR is emerging around something very human, bringing families together when they cannot be in the same place. As the holidays arrive, we especially become more aware of distance. XR offers a way to collapse that distance by making presence feel shared again, even when travel is impossible.

The technology is already coming together to make this a reality. The big headset players are all working on ways to create hyper-realistic digital twins of their users, including Apple’s Personas and Meta’s Codec Avatars. And we are also seeing headset-free solutions like Google Beam’s 3D communication platform changing what it means to talk to someone at a distance. When a person shows up in your space as a lifelike avatar, the moment stops feeling like a video call and starts feeling like you are sharing the same room. This makes the experience feel like they are visiting rather than dialing in, and immediately enables all participants to be more present with one another.

XR does more than shrink distance. It also changes how we experience time. With spatial video and volumetric capture, moments stop living in the past and start feeling like places you can return to. As AI becomes part of those recordings, the past begins to feel closer to the present. Companies like 2wai offer an early look at how people may one day see and speak with loved ones who are no longer here. This changes how people grieve, remember, and stay connected across generations.

The holidays are the one time of year when people really try to show up for each other. When distance or time gets in the way, XR can offer a new way to stay close. That is when the technology feels less like hardware and more like something meaningful.

🔒 What Insiders Got This Week

This week’s Insider drop included:

• 🧠 Reality Decoded: A look at quantum dots, one of the most important and least understood technologies shaping the future of XR displays.
• 🔮 What’s Next: Industrial robotics shifts toward flexible, human-centered systems; networks are the hidden engine of XR; and input moves closer to the body.

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