The AI XR Podcast. · 2026-06-19 · 52 min
Seventeen years into building the world's largest XR conference, Ori Inbar is not prone to hyperbole. He has watched hype cycles inflate and collapse, made predictions that turned out too optimistic, and learned to hold claims carefully. That is what makes his framing of AWE 2026 worth paying attention to: he calls it the most consequential year in the show's history. Not because everything is working - there have been heartbreaking layoffs in some corners of the industry - but because the convergence happening right now between AI and spatial computing is unlike anything the field has seen before. Before Ori joins, the hosts wade through a week of signal and noise. Three big IPOs - Cerebras, Quantium, and others - are absorbing investor attention, with Quantium carrying a $15 billion market cap on what Charlie calls "de minimis revenue," raising questions about whether the quantum AI bandwagon has lapped actual quantum utility. Rony poses the challenge directly: what is the real use case for quantum computing besides breaking encryption? When Ori arrives, the conversation opens on Snap.
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