Tom Emrich 🏳️‍🌈

About

Hi 👋 I'm a founder and product leader who has spent 17 years moving computing beyond screens and into the physical world. At 8th Wall, I helped put AR in the browser. At Meta, I helped build the developer platform behind VR and mixed reality. At Niantic, I worked on technology that mapped the real world for play. Every one of those waves taught computers to perceive the physical world. Physical AI is the next step, enabling machines to act in it. That's why I co-founded Springcraft. Building a robot today means engineering every piece from scratch. We're building an open platform where parts plug in and just work, what runs in simulation runs on the real machine, and builders share what they make instead of starting over. A few things you should know about me 👇 🚀 I build platforms at inflection points At 8th Wall, I helped scale WebAR into a global developer platform through to its acquisition by Niantic. At Meta, I led Horizon OS developer platform teams across ecosystem growth, tooling, and platform economics. At Springcraft, I'm running that playbook for robotics. 👥 I turn technology shifts into movements I founded We Are Wearables, the largest wearable tech community of its kin

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