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Lily Jemmett

Technology Journalist · UC Today · @lilyjemmett

Lily Jemmett is a technology journalist at UC Today covering enterprise XR, AI devices and the immersive workplace. Her reporting examines smart glasses, augmented and virtual reality, spatial computing and the infrastructure behind workplace adoption. With coverage including Meta, Amazon and emerging immersive technology applications, Lily explores how these developments affect collaboration, frontline work and productivity. Her news analysis and explainers focus on practical enterprise questions, including privacy, governance, integration and the challenges of moving immersive technology beyond pilot projects.

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Genie 4 Brings the ‘Living Workplace’ a Step Closer
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Genie 4 Brings the ‘Living Workplace’ a Step Closer

Google DeepMind’s latest generative world model promises to make virtual environments feel less like fixed digital sets and more like dynamic places that can be explored, altered, and populated in real time, though true enterprise use remains some distance away

Lily Jemmett · 29 Oct 2026
Can OpenXR Finally Make Enterprise XR Feel Less Like a Showpiece?
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Can OpenXR Finally Make Enterprise XR Feel Less Like a Showpiece?

OpenXR’s multitasking push signals a more practical direction for enterprise XR, as businesses look to connect immersive tools with existing 3D data, work instructions, and everyday workflows rather than investing in another isolated technology platform

Lily Jemmett · 27 Oct 2026
Can EON XR Infinite Automate Technical Skills Training?
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Can EON XR Infinite Automate Technical Skills Training?

EON Reality’s planned XR training library signals a shift from virtual demonstrations to guided simulation and assessment, raising a key buyer question: can immersive learning make technical workforce training more repeatable while preserving the value of hands-on experience?

Lily Jemmett · 22 Oct 2026
Can Enterprise XR Prove it Belongs in Day-to-Day Work?
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Can Enterprise XR Prove it Belongs in Day-to-Day Work?

Enterprise XR is moving from promising pilots to practical workplace tools. This week’s stories show how AR wayfinding, AI-powered guidance, reusable 3D data and enterprise device management are reshaping the role immersive technology could play in frontline operations

Lily Jemmett · 20 Oct 2026
The Future of AI Glasses: The Risk, Rules and Reward
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The Future of AI Glasses: The Risk, Rules and Reward

AI glasses could make workplace communication more hands-free and less screen-dependent, but growing restrictions in courts, government buildings and other sensitive settings show why enterprises must solve the recording and trust problem before they scale the technology

Lily Jemmett · 15 Oct 2026
Enterprise XR’s Quiet Pivot: Fewer Headsets, More Plumbing
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Enterprise XR’s Quiet Pivot: Fewer Headsets, More Plumbing

Over the past month, enterprise extended reality has produced revealing signals: a 1,000-location VR training rollout, Android management for XR headsets, remote rendering focused on resilience, and a medtech buyer considering a modular model for XR.

Lily Jemmett · 13 Oct 2026
Why Is Amazon’s Smart-Glasses Rollout a Governance Test?
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Why Is Amazon’s Smart-Glasses Rollout a Governance Test?

Amazon’s plan to scale delivery smart glasses beyond 20,000 devices by 2027 signals that frontline extended reality (XR) is moving beyond pilots, but it also raises a harder enterprise question: can a camera-equipped workforce scale without creating an ungovernable visual-data estate?

Lily Jemmett · 8 Oct 2026
What Do This Week’s XR Stories Mean For Workplace Tech?
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What Do This Week’s XR Stories Mean For Workplace Tech?

From Amazon’s delivery glasses to AMD’s $8.2bn spatial artificial intelligence (AI) bet, the latest enterprise extended reality (XR) news suggests the market is moving beyond device launches and towards the harder work of content creation, governance, integration and scalable frontline deployment

Lily Jemmett · 6 Oct 2026
How Is BBC Sport Turning a Small Studio Into an XR Hub?
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How Is BBC Sport Turning a Small Studio Into an XR Hub?

As organisations redesign physical workplaces around flexibility, the BBC Sport studio shows how immersive technology can make a constrained space feel larger, more adaptable and more creatively capable, provided the underlying production workflow can keep pace

Lily Jemmett · 1 Oct 2026
What Does Meta Muse Mean for the Immersive Workplace?
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What Does Meta Muse Mean for the Immersive Workplace?

Meta Connect’s Muse Charm may be a consumer device, but its always-available AI model points to a workplace future where agents move with employees across screens, smart glasses and real-world settings, turning immersive technology into an ambient, always-on layer of work

Lily Jemmett · 29 Sept 2026
Is Enterprise AI Productivity Becoming Operational?
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Is Enterprise AI Productivity Becoming Operational?

Enterprise AI is moving from personal assistance to coordinated work, but the companies that benefit most will be those that connect trusted data, workflow controls, and clear human accountability before they attempt to scale intelligent automation across their core operations

Lily Jemmett · 17 Sept 2026