⊲ Aerospace America ⊳ At AIAA SciTech Forum 2026 in Orlando, panellists from NVIDIA, Neural Concept and Leonardo Helicopters discussed how machine learning surrogates now speed up aerospace design...
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AR Helmets for Faster Triage
⊲ DVIDS ⊳ Georgia Tech biomedical engineering student Alissa Klein is researching augmented reality glasses for military medics during an internship at Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio. Her...
Simulated Drone Warfare Exposes Weaknesses
⊲ TechRadar ⊳ During the Combined Resolve military exercise held in Germany in April and May 2026, Ukrainian drone forces disabled armour so rapidly that equipment had to be respawned into the...
Victorians Pioneered Virtual Property Tours
⊲ IanVisits ⊳ Researchers have revealed that Brooks and Green, a Victorian estate agency on Old Bond Street, used cosmorama displays to show wealthy buyers immersive images of country estates...
3D Scanner’s Tiny Size & Power
⊲ Tech Briefs ⊳ MIT researchers have built a low-power chip, named Gleanmer, that lets tiny drones and other battery-limited robots construct real-time 3D maps of their surroundings using around 6...
Yes or No to Smart Glasses?
⊲ UC Today ⊳ Largest UK pub chain Wetherspoon has clarified that it has not banned Meta smart glasses from its pubs, despite media reports suggesting otherwise. A spokesperson said the chain has no...
Blair’s Looks Beyond Simulation to Data
⊲ Tech Funding News ⊳ Nick Blair, son of Tony Blair, is reportedly seeking around $200 million for Pyra, a UK defence technology startup with no public product and a website that simply reads...
Physics Simulation Gets AI Upgrade
⊲ MIT News ⊳ Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Tsinghua University have developed GeoPT, a pre-training method that teaches simulation models the...
Drone Warfare Rewrites Military Training
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ BAE Systems OneArc and Varjo are using simulation to help militaries keep pace with rapidly evolving drone warfare tactics. Oliver Arup of OneArc says procurement cycles cannot...
Lightweight LiDAR Gives Drones Real Time Vision
⊲ NextGen Defense ⊳ MicroVision has introduced lightweight LiDAR sensors designed to give UAVs real-time 3D mapping and onboard perception. MOVIA Air supports obstacle avoidance, autonomous landing...
Museum Specimens Get Digital Afterlife
⊲ UCL ⊳ The Immortalising Natural History in 3D exhibition at London's Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition showed how micro-CT and 3D surface scanning create digital twins of museum specimens....
Simulators Split Formula One Opinion
⊲ Motorsport Week ⊳ Oscar Piastri and Lewis Hamilton represent contrasting approaches to Formula 1 simulator usage, reflecting perhaps a generational divide in their preparation methods. Piastri,...
Glasses Grant Wearers Infrared Vision
⊲ Popular Science ⊳ Engineers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have built infrared-sensing glasses that let wearers see infrared light alongside normal vision. The 23-gram prototype uses...
AR Glasses That Tailor View Automatically
⊲ Inavate ⊳ Researchers have developed a new way to make augmented reality glasses show virtual objects clearly without blocking your view of the real world. The system uses light-polarising...
Some of the Tech Behind British Army Training
⊲ The Guardian ⊳ Skyral, a UK company spun out of Improbable, is part of the Omnia Training consortium that won a £2bn Ministry of Defence contract to help train the British Army using digital...
Siemens’ Industrial Metaverse Ecosystem
⊲ Siemens ⊳ Nils Klippenberg, CEO of Siemens AS in Norway, argues here that the industrial metaverse can help Nordic manufacturers meet sustainability goals and stay competitive. Virtual power...