⊲ The Guardian ⊳ Meta has unveiled three new pairs of AI smart glasses, including the Meta Ray-Ban Display, which features a built-in augmented reality display. These glasses project a colour...
Year: 2025
Simulation May Outpace Automation in Business AI
⊲ TechRadar Pro ⊳ AI in business is often used to automate tasks, but this article argues its true potential lies in simulation. By modelling complex environments with simulated populations,...
Next-Gen 5th-Gen Simulator Unveiled
⊲ Airforce Technology ⊳ JFJ Aviation & Defence and Vrgineers are collaborating on an unrestricted fifth-generation fighter simulator that uses mixed reality technology to deliver training. The...
Simulation Weekly News
⊲ Last Week’s Sim News Summary ⊳ In digital communication, Synthesia, a UK company, continues to innovate with its Express-2 update, providing lifelike AI avatars that exhibit nuanced gestures,...
Ireland’s Disease Model Praised Internationally
⊲ TechCentral.ie ⊳ Researchers at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics in Ireland have won the Jay Wright Forrester Award for their paper “An age‑cohort simulation model for generating Covid‑19...
Amazon Joins AR Wearables Race
⊲ WebProNews ⊳ Amazon is developing “Jayhawk” AR glasses aimed at consumers and logistics staff. The consumer model features full-colour displays, Alexa, cameras, mics and speakers. A second...
US Army Operational AR Lives On
⊲ The Register ⊳ The US Army has relaunched its augmented reality headset initiative with $354 million in contracts to Anduril and Rivet Industries for its Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC)...
Rafale Defeats F-35 in Live Simulation
⊲ FLYING ⊳ During NATO's Trident Atlantic 25 exercise in June over Finland, a French Dassault Rafale fighter jet achieved a simulated kill against a U.S. F-35A. The French Air and Space Force...
AR Drives Higher Manufacturing Quality
⊲ Automation.com ⊳ This piece outlines tangible benefits of augmented reality (AR) in manufacturing, highlighting measurable improvements such as higher efficiency, fewer errors, and shorter...
AI Avatar Clones Speak & Act Naturally
⊲ MIT Technology Review ⊳ The UK's Synthesia company, founded in 2017, has steadily advanced from simple voice-dubbing avatars to expressive, full-body AI presenters. Its latest update, Express‑2,...
RoboBallet Turns Code Into Choreography
⊲ Interesting Engineering ⊳ UCL, DeepMind and Intrinsic have unveiled RoboBallet, an AI that synchronises robotic arms using reinforcement learning and graph neural networks. By running countless...
Simulation Weekly News
⊲ Last Week’s Sim News Summary ⊳ In the military, China is developing AR capabilities for tank and armoured vehicle crews, offering real-time 360° vision, overlaid data, and enabling gunners to aim...