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Dauntless XR Bets On People In An Immersive Future

Dell, Thursday, April 9th, 2026

Dauntless XR builds immersive tech that makes people irreplaceable while Silicon Valley races to replace them with machines.

Dauntless XR co-founders Lori-Lee Elliott and Sofia Lazaro are building enterprise XR applications that make human operators better at their jobs.

Their data integration platform Aura Hub is the invisible backend that gives XR applications real data to display.

Katana, their no-code workflow tool, lets maintenance teams author procedures that technicians see overlaid on physical equipment through computer vision.

While the industry races toward full automation, Elliott and Lazaro are betting that humans stay in the loop while technology disappears into the background.

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