⊲ Road to VR ⊳ Images of Meta's Project Phoenix mixed reality headset have leaked ahead of its expected unveiling at Meta Connect on 23 and 24 September. Serial leaker Luna found firmware footage...
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Eye Tracking Measures Pilot Airmanship
⊲ Varjo ⊳ UK training technology company Cineon’s TACET-M was trialled with RAF trainee pilots at RAF Cranwell, combining Varjo XR-4 mixed reality headsets, eye tracking and AI to assess...
Simulation Connects Pacific Fighting Forces
⊲ Halldale ⊳ U.S. joint and combined forces trained together in a live, virtual and constructive environment during Valiant Shield 2026, held from 22 June to 1 July. Live pilots, virtual simulators...
USAF Orders $45.3 million 747-8i Simulator
⊲ Luxurylaunches ⊳ The US Air Force has awarded CAE USA in a sole source $45.3 million contract to install a Level D full-flight simulator for the Boeing 747-8i at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. The...
Training and Simulation Get Spatial Audio Standard
⊲ audioXpress ⊳ MPEG-I Immersive Audio brings standardised 6DoF sound to VR, AR and mixed reality through compressed scene metadata and a normative renderer. It models geometry, materials,...
AI Navigates Complex Interactive Virtual Environments
⊲ Tom's Hardware ⊳ An enthusiast known as CozyBlaze has demonstrated OpenAI's latest GPT-6 Astra model completing Valve's puzzle game Portal entirely autonomously, using Model Context Protocol...
Manhattan Rebuilt Inside Unreal From Photos
⊲ Something Big Is Happening ⊳ Matt Shumer, AI entrepreneur and investor, has used AI to rebuild Manhattan and his childhood neighbourhood, together with a playable zombie survival game, in Unreal...
Static Staffing as Simulator Fleet Grows Fivefold
⊲ 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,...
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....