⊲ Task & Purpose ⊳ The US Air Force has awarded LIFT Airborne Technologies a 10-year contract worth up to $83.4 million for as many as 16,000 AV2.2 helmets, replacing the HGU-55/P worn since...
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Virtual Fruit Fly Plays Doom
⊲ Scientific American ⊳ Researchers have published a detailed digital map of a fruit fly’s nervous system, containing more than 166,000 neurons and their connections. Developers have used the...
LLM-Style AI Predicts Material Motion
⊲ Notebookcheck ⊳ MIT has developed WorldParticle, a single AI model that simulates the physical behaviour of many materials. Rather than relying on separate equations and custom code for each...
Realistic Training Starts With Data
⊲ Shield AI ⊳ Shield AI strategist Randall Toth argues that sensor training depends on a single validated 3D description of terrain and objects, termed digital ground truth, from which every...
Sailing Simulation Challenges AI Models
⊲ XDA Developers ⊳ A Reddit user, abhi3188, has used Claude Code to build a sailing simulator in which large language models race a virtual yacht. Every five seconds each model receives 23 raw...
AI Delays Pentagon Simulation Strategy
⊲ National Defense Magazine ⊳ The Pentagon has delayed its first modelling and simulation strategy in over 30 years to align it with advances in artificial intelligence. The strategy sets five...
Flexible Drones Trained in Simulation
⊲ arXiv ⊳ Collision-resilient drones can survive hitting a wall yet still fail to regain controlled flight, as the stock PX4 autopilot rejects valid velocity data after high-speed impacts....
Meta Ends Support For Quest 2 VR
⊲ TechRadar ⊳ Meta will end support for its Quest 2 and Quest Pro VR headsets in December 2027, with operating system updates ending in March and security patches continuing until year-end. Users...
Five Airframes, One Visual Display Family
⊲ 3D perception ⊳ 3D perception (3DP) of Norway has been awarded a long-term frame agreement by Germany's Reiser Simulation and Training to supply Lyra dome visual display systems for forthcoming...
Instrumented Exercise Tests Combat Readiness
⊲ MS&T ⊳ Writing for MS&T, Dim Jones flew aboard Draken Europe's Zodiac 5, a Dassault Falcon 20 simulating a Su-34 Fullback, during Exercise Cobra Warrior 26-2 from Teesside International...
Simpler Smart Glasses May Dominate
⊲ Immersive Wire ⊳ Tom Ffiske argues in Immersive Wire that smart glasses makers are fighting physics, with waveguides delivering under 1% of projector light, batteries of about 250 mAh versus at...
Unreal Engine Powers Police Training
⊲ Halldale ⊳ Spanish flight simulator manufacturer entrol, the maker of EASA and FAA certified flight simulators, has added law enforcement features to ENVISION, its in-house visual system built on...