Countdown to Samsung’s Galaxy XR revealed Tuesday, October 21, 7 p.m. PT. Samsung will stream its World Wide Open event, confirming the reveal of the first Android XR headset built with Google and Qualcomm. Reservations are live with a $100 Samsung.com credit, hinting at near-term availability. Expect the official name, pricing, ship window, and app lineup, with Lattice-style multimodal AI claims positioned as core to the experience. Media invites and Samsung’s site list 10 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. PT, with YouTube and Samsung.com carrying the feed.
Flint, a Sheryl Sandberg–backed startup, raised $5 million led by Accel to build AI that autonomously creates and updates websites. Users provide a URL or design parameters, and Flint generates fully coded, responsive pages with analytics and ad integrations. It can ingest an existing site’s design language and replicate it for new pages in about a day. The system currently requires users to supply written content but automates layout, testing, and optimization. Early clients include Cognition, Modal, and Graphite. Flint’s long-term goal is dynamic personalization and self-improving web performance driven by AI.
Palmer Lucky’s Anduril unveiled EagleEye, a mixed-reality helmet for soldiers that merges AR and sensor data into a unified battlefield view. Designed for situational awareness, it fuses live video, drone feeds, and mapping overlays. Founder Palmer Luckey, returning to his VR roots after Oculus, described EagleEye as a “combat operating system.” The helmet runs on Anduril’s Lattice OS and uses built-in cameras and LiDAR for 3D mapping. Early prototypes are being tested with the U.S. military. Unlike consumer XR gear, EagleEye is hardened for durability, latency, and security rather than entertainment.
Epiminds Raises $6.6 Million For AI Marketing Agents. The ex-Google and Spotify execs raised $6.6 million from Lightspeed to build agent-based AI that automates workflows for advertising and marketing agencies.
Vander McLeod is a British film director who’s been working in China for the past twenty years. This 3-minute AI concept video is for McLeod’s original IP, Star Crusade, which has 20 million views on Instagram. “The footage combines gameplay and cinematic cutscenes, following three playable characters across diverse landscapes,” explains McLeod. “Each character is fully customisable, with evolving features, armour, weapons, and abilities.” This is just one world within the Star Crusade universe, a story McLeod says he was working on for decades. “I wrote millions of words of narrative, lore, and complete stories. I previously released one of those stories which became a bestseller in Japan, and it’s been incredibly rewarding to bring elements of that world into AI, exploring and playing with my ideas in new ways.”
This column has a companion, The AI/XR Podcast, hosted by its author, Charlie Fink, and Ted Schilowitz, former studio executive and futurist for Paramount and Fox, and Rony Abovitz, founder of Magic Leap. This week’s guest is Amit Jain, founder and CEO of Luma.ai. We can be found on Spotify, iTunes, and YouTube.
