⊲ U.S. Government Accountability Office ⊳ A new GAO report finds that the number of flight simulators under Federal Aviation Administration oversight has grown by more than 500 percent since 1990,...
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Aechelon’s Nucleus and Nexus Sharpen Mission Training
⊲ Shield AI ⊳ Shield AI's Aechelon business has outlined how its visual simulation tools support military flight training. Aechelon Nucleus generates correlated out-the-window and sensor views,...
Army Builds Drone Simulator In-House
⊲ Army.mil ⊳ Drone warfare in Ukraine is reshaping US Army training doctrine, prompting the Combined Arms Command-Training Innovation Facility to build the Virtual Drone Collective Trainer (VDCT)...
Gemini AI Coaching Arrives In Mixed Reality
⊲ TechRadar ⊳Xreal’s Aura smart glasses combine see-through 2K displays, a 70-degree field of view and Android XR in a lightweight design. Processing and battery duties sit in an external puck,...
Synthetic Populations Replace Costly Surveys
⊲ Bessemer Venture Partners ⊳ Bessemer Venture Partners' Atlas analysis explores the rise of AI-powered behavioural simulation, where synthetic populations replace costly surveys and focus groups....
HAVELSAN Grows 737 MAX Simulator Orderbook
⊲ Halldale ⊳ Türkiye based manufacturer HAVELSAN has grown its Boeing 737 MAX simulator orderbook to five devices following Turkish Airlines’ order for two more full flight simulators. Eight...
Open Source UAV Flight Test Bench Emerges
⊲ Hackaday ⊳ Developer AlexanderRex has built PteroSim, an open-source test bench for simulating uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) from pre-flight validation to a full autonomy testing pipeline. The...
Meta Unveils AI XR Tester
⊲ Road to VR ⊳ Meta has introduced XR Operator, an experimental OpenXR tool allowing MCP compatible AI agents to autonomously build, test, debug and visually verify VR applications. Available...
From Shotguns To Simulators: Ukraine’s Hard-Won Training Lessons
Martin Carr of AVS, Mikko Luhtava of Varjo and Kristine Kvam of Fynd Reality, one high-end headset maker and two training-system builders using it, recently joined a roundtable on how Ukraine's...
Saab’s Digital Battlefield Training Tech
⊲ Saab UK ⊳ Saab explains how Personal Detection Devices (PDDs), laser weapon simulators and vehicle instrumentation turn military exercises into measurable digital battlefields. Soldiers wear PDDs...
Army Reform Transfers Vehicle Simulation
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ The US Army has moved oversight of one office, not its entire simulation and training organisation. Product Director Virtual Training Systems (PdD VTS), previously under...
3D Files Carry Looks, and Now Behaviours
⊲ GameDev.net ⊳ Khronos, the industry consortium behind widely used graphics and computing standards, used SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles to set out where those standards are headed next. The...