VRM Reality Innovators Network 2026.03.02

VRM Reality Innovators Network 2026.03.02

VRM Reality Innovators Network 2026.03.02

There’s a ton of excellent content in our Reality Innovators Network community, but don’t worry if you’ve missed the last few days, we got you covered. 

UNIT9 Brought The Met to Roblox for Verizon

Verizon and UNIT9 took The Metropolitan Museum into Roblox. Visitors scan real artifacts on their phones, earning wearable digital collectibles across 40M+ Roblox games. The project walked away with 8 Shorty Awards, 7 CLIOs, and 4 Webby Awards. Read more

JigSpace Saves Evapco $500K at Trade Shows

Evapco makes cooling units that weigh tens of thousands of pounds. Getting one to a trade show was a nightmare. JigSpace turned their whole catalog into interactive 3D demos on iPads and Vision Pro, saving the company over $500,000. Read more

Asteria’s AI Pipeline Took on the F1 Track

Asteria mixed live action, miniatures, VFX, and generative rendering into one production pipeline for CoreWeave and Aston Martin F1 at Vegas. Every frame was art directed. Every logo tracked pixel-perfect on a moving car. Read more

Brands In Play: Inside Fortnite’s Ad Ecosystem

Nic Hill and Aida A. sit with Matthew Zanazzo of Catalyst Studios, former Head of Fortnite at Gamefam, who drove 750M+ plays across deals with Epic, LEGO, and Disney. There is a lot to unpack about the state of UGC gaming. Read more

Brilliant Labs CEO on Open Source AI Glasses

Gabriele Romagnoli interviews Bobak Tavangar of Brilliant Labs on why Halo was built open source at $349, how Noah AI handles memory and real-time conversation, and what shifts he sees coming in 2026 and 2027. Read more

RP1 Is Hosting an Open Metaverse Hackathon

Sean Mann shares RP1’s push to build on open metaverse standards, so what you create can never be platform-wiped. Ready Player Me. HoloLens. Altspace. The list of platforms that went dark keeps growing. March 7-8 in San Francisco. Read more

Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence Is the Next Leap

Jose Lopez shares Fei-Fei Li’s case that spatial intelligence is the next AI frontier. Language models taught machines to speak. Spatial models will teach them to act. Without a shared spatial truth, coordinated AI cannot exist. Read more

By | March 2, 2026