Spotlight by Andy Fawkes "Will there be a world where the simulation may be just as good as the real world?" That's the rather grand question I put to a lunchtime crowd at London's Digital...
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Preparing Troops For Combat Trauma
⊲ KentOnline ⊳ The article discusses the British Army's use of trained actors, employed by the Canadian firm Calian, to simulate mass casualty scenarios for soldier training. These actors, equipped...
The Eye as Battlefield Interface
⊲ Military AI ⊳ US firm Syntec Optics has secured new orders for optical components supporting AI-enabled military augmented reality headsets that use eye tracking to identify where soldiers are...
Educational Design Beats Immersion
⊲ Cureus ⊳ US Researchers tested a new model for judging how well virtual reality, augmented reality and handheld ultrasound training work together in medical education. Forty one students finished...
Potential Civil-Military AR Crossover
⊲ Road to VR ⊳ Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril and Oculus, has revealed a prototype pair of compact augmented reality glasses believed to be under development at Anduril, claiming they deliver...
Terrain Tool Gains LiDAR Improvements
⊲ Remograph ⊳ Remograph, based in Linköping, Sweden, announced the release of Remoscape v1.5, its tool for generating 3D landscapes for realtime visualisation. The update brings improved LiDAR...
HLA Bridge to Learning Ecosystems
⊲ Yet Analytics ⊳ Yet Analytics, a leader in the Experience API (xAPI), Learning Record Store (LRS) technology, has released Federate xAPI, an open source tool that lets High Level Architecture...
Smart Glasses Banned from Court Buildings
⊲ syracuse.com ⊳ New York's Court System will ban smart glasses and other recording eyewear from all court buildings starting 20 July. Video and photography have long been barred from courthouses,...
Daily 3D Maps for Uncrewed System Navigation
⊲ Space Daily ⊳ Vantor, the Earth observation company formerly known as Maxar, has launched WorldView 3D, a service producing daily updated three dimensional maps of Earth accurate to 15...
Fifteen Year £2 Billion Training Contract
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ Omnia Training, a Raytheon UK-led consortium including Capita, Cervus, Rheinmetall UK, and Skyral, has secured a £2bn, 15-year contract from the UK Ministry of Defence to deliver...
Rifle Becomes New Drone Controller
⊲ Military.com ⊳ The US-based startup PYRRHUS Aeronautics has developed LADRS, a rifle mounted device that lets soldiers control drones through weapon movement rather than a handheld joystick or...
Korean Simulator Supports Emergency Flight Practice
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ The Republic of Korea Army has fielded a new KUH-1 'Surion' flight training simulator. Developed by Korea Aerospace Industries under a December 2023 contract, the simulator...
NVIDIA Omniverse Subscription Now Free
⊲ StorageReview ⊳ NVIDIA has removed the subscription requirement for Omniverse, a platform for building and simulating realistic 3D virtual worlds, making it free for development, production and...
“Sim Pods” for British Army Drone Training
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ Skua Defence Limited and UFDS EU have partnered to bring Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator, a Ukraine-developed UAS training system, to UK and allied forces. UFDS has trained more...
Workers Film Themselves Training Robots
⊲ eWeek ⊳ Some Indian factories are requiring assembly line workers to wear forehead cameras and smart glasses, capturing footage used to train humanoid robots. India has become a major source for...
Battlefield Vision Platform Unveiled
⊲ Distance Technologies ⊳ Helsinki-based deep-tech startup Distance Technologies has launched Acuity, a visual intelligence platform built on its new Acuity OS, designed to connect sensors, battle...