# Ruvi XR Labs

> Ruvi XR Labs is an applied AI and XR lab in Seattle, Washington, building AI assistance for smart glasses. Its two products are MEMO, AI assistance for everyday life, and MEMO Maritime, hands-free maintenance evidence for marine technicians. Both capture only when the wearer asks, ground answers in saved source observations, and hand off to a trusted person or remote expert when AI is not enough.

Key facts:
- Location: Seattle, Washington, USA.
- Contact: through the request forms on the site only (MEMO early access, MEMO Maritime pilots, partnerships). The lab does not publish an inbound email address.
- Capture model: trigger-based. Nothing is recorded in the background; capture starts with a voice command or tap and a light on the frame shows it.
- Recognition: winner of the NVIDIA Spark Hackathon in Seattle with a working smart-glasses prototype.

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.ruvixr.com/): Overview of the lab, both products and the technology stack (See → Understand → Remember → Know → Assist → Escalate).
- [MEMO](https://www.ruvixr.com/memo): AI assistance for everyday life. MEMO answers questions about what you are looking at, remembers the moments you choose, and connects you with a trusted person when AI is not enough. For: Older adults, families and carers, and anyone with too much to keep track of. Status: Early access open.
- [MEMO Maritime](https://www.ruvixr.com/maritime): Hands-free intelligence for frontline work. MEMO Maritime helps marine technicians capture maintenance evidence while they work, and retrieve it — grounded in the source observation — when the next repair depends on it. For: Marine technicians, service companies and vessel operators. Status: Pilots open.
- [Research](https://www.ruvixr.com/research): Three research tracks — Spatial guidance, Wearable memory, Human + AI collaboration — studied through MEMO development studies and MEMO Maritime pilots.
- [Writing](https://www.ruvixr.com/writing): Field notes, analysis and essays on spatial guidance, wearable memory and smart glasses.
- [About](https://www.ruvixr.com/about): Principles, product history and how to work with the lab.

## Writing

- [Waveguides, prisms or passthrough: what field work needs from smart glasses](https://www.ruvixr.com/writing/waveguides-prisms-or-passthrough): Analysis, September 2026. Meta's new VR Glasses put three ways of building smart glasses side by side. For hands-on work, how you see the world matters as much as how big the screen is.
- [MEMO and the problem of useful memory](https://www.ruvixr.com/writing/memo-and-the-physical-world): Field note, September 2026. What happens when a wearable system can notice the things that matter in everyday life?
- [Guidance is a spatial problem](https://www.ruvixr.com/writing/guidance-is-a-spatial-problem): Research, August 2026. Digital work instructions are useful. Situated instructions are more useful.
- [When the interface leaves the screen](https://www.ruvixr.com/writing/the-interface-leaves-the-screen): Essay, July 2026. The next interface is not smaller; it is more aware of where you are.

## Get involved

- [Join MEMO early access](https://www.ruvixr.com/memo#pilot): Early access to the prototype, or join the studies that decide what MEMO remembers and what it never does.
- [Run a MEMO Maritime pilot](https://www.ruvixr.com/maritime#pilot-request): One workflow, one vessel, measured before and after.
- [Partner or collaborate on research](https://www.ruvixr.com/about#partner-request): Technology partnerships and research collaborations.

## Optional

- [Full text for LLMs](https://www.ruvixr.com/llms-full.txt): Products, technology, FAQs and every article in one file.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ruvi-xr-labs): Company updates.
- [Sitemap](https://www.ruvixr.com/sitemap-index.xml)