It’s fair to say that we made a major splash at AWE USA 2025, held June 10–12 in Long Beach, California. Not only did we put on a powerful showcase of innovations in spatial computing, augmented reality, and AI integration, but we also took home not one, but two Auggie Awards. Our amazing team including our Humanoid Resources Intern, Terri MechKenna, worked incredibly hard to deliver some ground-breaking demos and experiences in the Auki booth and throughout the exhibition hall.

Two Auggie Wins for Auki Labs

We’re honored to have received both Best Enterprise Solution and Best Web3 Implementation at this year’s Auggie Awards, recognizing our transformative approach to spatial computing. The Best Enterprise Solution was awarded to our Cactus Spatial AI platform for retail. The Best Web3 Implementation was awarded to the Posemesh for its technical innovation and commitment to decentralization, interoperability, and privacy.

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These awards mark a significant milestone in our journey: from bold early ideas to mature, deployable, real-world solutions that are redefining how humans and machines interact. They are a testament to our team's hard work, our growing ecosystem of partners, and the real-world value of decentralized spatial computing. Most importantly it shows the utility of this technology and what we are building. Cactus is already delivering value to our enterprise customers.

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Spotlight on Innovation

At our booth, visitors could take part in live demos and interactive experiences showcasing the future of spatial technology:

• Spatially Aware Smart Glasses: Developed in collaboration with Mentra, these glasses weigh under 40 grams and integrate with Auki Labs' decentralized Visual Positioning System (VPS), enabling precise and privacy-preserving spatial awareness without reliance on GPS.
• App-Free XR Navigation: Powered by Auki’s spatial domains and Zappar’s App Clip technology, Gotu allows attendees to effortlessly navigate the expo using augmented reality without any app downloads, simplifying user experience.
• Interoperable Robotics Integration: Demonstrations will feature interoperability across leading robot manufacturers such as Padbot, Unitree, and Slamtec. Robots utilizing Auki technology can effortlessly understand and collaboratively navigate physical environments, significantly enhancing operational efficiency.
• Spatial AI for Retail: The Cactus platform provides advanced spatial analytics to retailers, helping optimize product placements and improve consumer engagement through insightful spatial data.
• McKenna AR Experience: Setting up an AR art and NFT experience is easy with McKenna, and integration with Mattercraft by Zappar means AR experiences can be edited in real time and experienced app-free. This is a creative tool that will drive wider accessibility and adoption of AR.

Thought Leadership on the Future of AR and AI

Auki Labs leaders also contributed to the global conversation around AR and digital ethics:

Nils Pihl, Auki Labs CEO, delivered a keynote presentation, "The Great Reversal," highlighting how, instead of humans entering digital spaces for work, entertainment and escapism, spatial computing reverses this by enabling AI and digital entities to step into our physical world to collaborate and perform tasks.

Alex Ronalds, Auki's Chief Product Officer, discussed critical issues around privacy and ownership in the digital world and AR content, helping reframe how we think about data rights and content control.

Cayden Pierce, founder of Mentra, introduced AugmentOS together with the rest of the Mentra team. AugmentOS is an open source operating system that enables AI agents and other apps to run on smart glasses. Integrated with Auki's spatial maps, Mentra devices are able to position themselves using the Auki VPS and even integrate with Cactus.

Looking Ahead

At Auki Labs, we believe spatial computing is not just a technological evolution, it’s a philosophical shift in how we interact with each other, with machines, and with the world itself. As spatial computing continues to evolve, it will inevitably lead to giving AI access to the physical world.

We’ve spent decades entering digital worlds. Now they’re entering ours. - Nils Pihl

As we continue building the Auki Network, a decentralized perception layer for the planet, we're grateful for the recognition and conversations at AWE. This year has seen our solutions mature from concept to ready for primetime. This is just the beginning.

Stay tuned. Spatial computing is maturing and is ready to reshape reality.

About Auki Labs

Auki is building the Auki network, a decentralized machine perception network for the next 100 billion people, devices and AI on Earth and beyond. The Auki network is a posemesh, an external and collaborative sense of space that machines and AI can use to understand the physical world.

Our mission is to improve civilization’s intercognitive capacity; our ability to think, experience and solve problems together with each other and AI. The greatest way to extend human reach is to collaborate with others. We are building consciousness-expanding technology to reduce the friction of communication and bridge minds.

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About the Auki network

The Auki network is a posemesh: a decentralized machine perception network and collaborative spatial computing protocol, designed to allow digital devices to securely and privately exchange spatial data and computing power to form a shared understanding of the physical world.

The Auki network is an open-source protocol that powers a decentralized, blockchain-based spatial computing network. Designed for a future where spatial computing is both collaborative and privacy-preserving, it limits any organization's surveillance capabilities and encourages sovereign ownership of private maps of personal and public spaces.

The decentralization also offers a competitive advantage, especially in shared spatial computing sessions, AR for example, where low latency is crucial.

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