📊 Week Ahead
- XR EXPO 2025 & Virtual Worlds (May 8–9, 2025; Stuttgart, Germany): Explore XR EXPO 2025
- Evolution of OpenXR Session at XR EXPO (May 9, 2025; Stuttgart): Join the OpenXR Deep Dive
- Google I/O 2025 (May 14–16, 2025; Mountain View, CA): Register & Watch Keynotes
- Meaningful XR 2025 (May 22–23, 2025; UC Davis, CA): Call for Participation
🔬 Deep Dive
Geometry-Grounded Memory Makes “Infinite-Length” Video World Models Finally Stick the Landing
🎯 Executive Summary (30 seconds) The breakthrough Stanford & Google researchers introduce geometry-grounded long-term spatial memory for autoregressive video diffusion models, fusing a static 3-D point-cloud map with short-term working memory and sparse episodic key-frames to stop scenes from “forgetting” themselves . Impact Eliminates drift on multi-minute generations and bumps every VBench quality
Sam Allabadi
💰 Market Moves
- Flam Raises $14 M Series A to scale its AI-powered MR marketing platform – Learn More
- eyeo Secures €15 M Seed Round to boost camera light sensitivity for XR and imaging – Read the Announcement
- ArborXR Acquires InformXR to launch ArborXR Insights enterprise analytics suite – Details Here
🎯 Research Radar
- Spatial-MLLM: Boosting MLLM Capabilities in Visual-Based Spatial Reasoning – View Paper
- SITE: Towards Spatial Intelligence Thorough Evaluation – View Paper
- Unlocking Location Intelligence: A Survey from Deep Learning to the LLM Era – View Paper
📋 Patent Watch
- Meta’s Gaze-Driven AR Adaptive Content Generation (US 20250130636 A1) – Google Patents
- AR Glasses With Integrated Photovoltaic Power System (US 20250076661 A1) – Google Patents
- Snap-Fit AR Glasses Assembly (WO 2025073114 A1) – WIPO Patent
✅ Prediction Tracker
- ✓ Called Niantic’s Pivot to Geospatial AI:
- ✗ IDC’s 44.2 % AR/VR Growth Forecast for 2024
💬 Community Pulse
- Poll Results: 67 % of readers expect a major AR breakthrough in 2025 – View Poll
- Reader Question: “What about haptic feedback?”
📅 Calendar
- May 9, 2025: Evolution of OpenXR Session at XR EXPO – Join the Session
- May 14–16, 2025: Google I/O 2025 – Register & Watch
- May 22–23, 2025: Meaningful XR 2025 – Register & Submit
- May 24, 2025: Stanford XR Conference 2025 – RSVP & Agenda
- Jun 10–12, 2025: AWE USA 2025 – Join AWE USA
