The pilots worked. That’s the part nobody talks about enough. Across enterprise and government, spatial computing proof-of-concepts have largely delivered on their promise — productivity gains, error reduction, faster decision support in the field. The technology performed.
So why is so much of it still sitting in pilot?
Governance. Process architecture. Policy frameworks designed before anyone imagined a frontline worker wearing an AI-embedded headset. These are the organizational challenges our XR deployment strategy and AI governance advisory practice is specifically designed to address. that’s pulling live data and feeding recommendations into an operational workflow. Those aren’t technology problems — they’re organizational ones, and they’re significantly harder to solve than the underlying hardware or software.
That’s the conversation I’m interested in. Not which platform is newest, but what actually made scale possible for the organizations that got there — and what the ones still stuck have in common. Our commercialization advisory addresses exactly this transition, from pilot to sustained deployment.
I’m participating in AWE USA 2026 as the AI/XR Strategy advisor for the Enterprise & Government track, and that’s the frame I’m bringing into Long Beach in June. The convergence of spatial computing and AI isn’t a future state anymore. Physical AI, AI-embedded smartglasses, digital twins running on live operational data — this is current. The question is whether the organizational infrastructure around it is ready: procurement models, security architecture, workforce integration, decision authority structures.
For those wanting an early look, AWE is running a live preview of the Enterprise & Government VIP Program on April 16 — 11 AM PDT / 2 PM EDT, streaming on LinkedIn and YouTube. A practical walk-through of who’s in the room and what we’ll be covering.
The conversations I’m most interested in aren’t the ones that will be on the main stage. They’re the ones that happen when practitioners who’ve actually shipped something are in the same room as people still trying to figure out why their pilot stalled. That’s where the useful signal tends to live.
— Lynn Welch, Principal Advisor, The Lion’s View
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