18 May 2026
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AWE Team
Meet the Select Builders at AWE USA 2026
The connection between XR and AI is opening up new ways for people to create, learn, and stay close. At AWE USA 2026, our theme "I, Spatial: Humans Empowered by Spatial AI" comes to life directly through our community's work. This year, we have a massive focus on physical AI, robotics, and next-generation smartglasses. We are glad to share our selected Builder candidates who are leading these fields.
Take a look at the builders joining us this June in Long Beach.
Select Builders AWE USA 2026
Remixing Reality
A no-code, cross-platform app to create, play, remix, and share AR experiences. You can build a marketing activation on your phone and people can view it directly on their smart glasses. You can also play an AR game, change it up, and share it with friends.
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SmartSight
SmartSight utilizes Ray-Ban Meta AI smartglasses to act as a study coach that passively notes your study sessions. The built-in AI identifies learning patterns, extracts key content, and provides tailored review materials for a personalized learning journey.
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StylMe
StylMe is a glasses-first AI styling assistant that digitizes your wardrobe, learns your taste, and suggests outfits. Operating across mobile phones, the web, and AI smartglasses, it provides real-time styling advice to help users shop smarter, save time, and reduce clothing waste. The project pairs everyday wardrobe organization with spatial computing for instant decision-making in the real world.
Staxel
Staxel is building an AI framework designed to turn traditional advertising displays into interactive, gesture-controlled experiences using a basic webcam. The project fixes the passive nature of real-world billboard advertising by turning public screens into measurable, engaging touchpoints.
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Justin Beaver
An innovative EdTech startup spun off from Tilburg University, Justin Beaver changes climate education into a hands-on, measurable system for schools and universities. By combining Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and cognitive science, the platform delivers immersive learning experiences that improve knowledge retention and motivate sustainable daily behavior.
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CADABRA AI Inc
CADABRA is a B2B AI CAD copilot built specifically for engineering teams to speed up project timelines and lower production costs. The tool translates simple text prompts into production-ready CAD models and design recommendations tailored to company standards, helping engineers save time on file searches and manual drawings.
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ChadoXR
ChadoXR offers a step-by-step guided experience for completing a traditional Japanese temae tea ceremony in mixed reality, generating a virtual tea setup and utensils directly within your immediate environment. Guidance is provided by a witty virtual yokai named Seto Taisho to keep the experience light and engaging.
ZOOMR
ZOOMR is an early mixed-reality project that uses Meta's PCA API to turn camera zooming into active gameplay. Instead of simply cropping pixels like standard phone zooms, ZOOMR accesses raw camera textures to reveal hidden, parallel dimensions inside your actual room. Users control the experience with their hands to find and eliminate targets before they disappear.
The Pink Screen VR
Pink Screen Live is a web-based, interactive cinema platform where viewers explore films as immersive, social environments. By blending storytelling, gaming, and lightweight XR, the platform turns passive film viewing into active participation directly in your desktop or mobile browser.
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Yume — Step into your dream
Yume acts as an imagination engine that translates children's drawings into fully explorable 3D worlds. Unlike temporary asset generators, Yume enables persistent story spaces that kids can revisit and expand over time without needing technical skills.
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Musetales
Musetales utilizes a fast, AI-driven 3D pipeline to transform museum artifacts and static scans into playable history, interactive games, and virtual tours. Using Unreal Engine, their team brought historical education into platforms like Fortnite and Meta Horizon, offering regional museums an affordable way to digitize their collections.
notAnImage
notAnImage focuses on bringing human presence into the home through OHLO, a tabletop holographic device that displays a natural 3D face visible to anyone in the room without headsets or glasses. The device preserves natural eye contact whether you are interacting with an AI companion or catching up with a remote loved one.
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Inkphony
Inkphony is a mixed-reality musical sketchpad app designed to make music theory approachable by turning physical environments into interactive playgrounds. The app features an AI-powered instrument extractor that analyzes everyday objects in a user's room and generates unique instrument sounds from them.
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Halion Technologies LLC
Halion is building AR smartglasses designed for everyday life. Grounded in the belief that the best technology is the kind you barely notice, their team prioritizes comfort, balance, and familiarity. Rather than chasing extreme field-of-view metrics, Halion focuses on delivering the right information at the right time in a highly wearable form factor.
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WanderLens Lab: Orbitour AI
WanderLens Lab is a spatial computing startup building Orbitour AI, an AI-powered tour platform that changes real-world properties into photorealistic, interactive 3D experiences using Gaussian Splatting. While visitors explore spaces and chat with an AI guide, the backend maps every environment into high-quality spatial data designed for physical AI and robotics simulation.
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Mixel Studio
Mixel Studio is building OXR, an infrastructure platform for zero-friction XR creation and management. OXR empowers non-technical teams to design, launch, and run synchronized spatial experiences across headsets and web browsers without needing dedicated software engineers on site.
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Open 4D
Open4D is an open-source, research-driven ecosystem developed by the Spatial Intelligence Research Group (SINRG-Lab). It provides shared infrastructure for the representation, compression, processing, and streaming of time-varying 4D geometry like Gaussian splats, which are necessary for advanced XR, robotics, and digital twins.
LangLens
A language learning app designed to span AI smartglasses and mixed reality headsets, making vocabulary learning spatial, interactive, and memorable rather than flat.
Hidden Realities
Hidden Realities is an immersive technology company turning physical areas like hospitals, theme parks, and public spaces into interactive, story-driven worlds using augmented reality and AI-powered tools. Their flagship project, Heart Full of Magic, transforms hospital hallways into interactive storybooks that inspire joy and recovery for young patients.
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