⊲ Last Week’s Sim News Summary ⊳ AI is accelerating the push to make engineering simulation tools more accessible to non-experts by abstracting their technical complexity, marking a turning point...
Month: September 2025
Ticketing Gets Immersive Seat Views
⊲ Event Industry News ⊳ Nuweb Group has teamed up with Barcelona-based 3D Digital Venue to enhance online ticket purchasing by offering immersive "view from seat" experiences. This partnership...
Simulation & AI Disrupt Manned Fighter Jets?
⊲ Sri Lanka Guardian ⊳ German firm, Helsing, has unveiled the CA-1 “Europa”, a four-ton, 11 metre fighter jet designed to operate without a pilot and execute AI-guided combat missions. Tested...
Pope Rejects Virtual Pope
⊲ eWeek ⊳ Pope Leo XIV has rejected the idea of an AI-generated “virtual pope” that could answer questions online, describing the concept as disturbing and unacceptable. He acknowledged the...
Linked Virtual Battle Portals
⊲ Medium ⊳ The article discusses the concept of the metaverse as a multiverse, particularly in a military context, as outlined in the co-authors' book, "The Military Metaverse." It contrasts a...
Gaussian Splatting for Consumers
⊲ CNET ⊳ Meta has launched Hyperscape Capture, a tool that allows Quest 3 and Quest 3S users to quickly create 3D scans of their environments using Gaussian Splatting technology. Gaussian Splatting...
Video Becomes Lifelike 3D Holograms
⊲ Auganix ⊳ Looking Glass, a provider of holographic and light field display technology, has introduced its Hololuminescent Display (HLD), a novel holographic screen that allows standard video...
Goodbye Discrete GPUs, Hello Chiplets?
⊲ PCWorld ⊳ Nvidia has invested around US$5 billion in Intel and will use Intel’s foundries to produce x86 processors that include integrated Nvidia RTX GPU chiplets. The article discusses the...
Simulation Weekly News
⊲ Last Week’s Sim News Summary ⊳ The Accelerated AR RaceThe competition in spatial computing hardware is escalating. Amazon is advancing in the AR market, developing both "Jayhawk" consumer AR...
Real-Time Player Data Hits Screens
⊲ The Guardian ⊳ Amazon Prime Video is adding a new data-rich overlay called Prime Vision to its UK Champions League coverage. Viewers can toggle the feature to see real-time stats like expected...
AI May Democratise Simulation
⊲ Engineering.com ⊳ AI is accelerating the push to make engineering simulation tools more accessible to non-experts by abstracting their technical complexity. Malcolm Panthaki, co-founder of...
MassXR Earns US Navy Recognition
⊲ Halldale ⊳ Mass Virtual has won the US Navy’s Portsmouth Naval Shipyard XR Prize Challenge for its immersive fire-response training solution, MassXR. Designed for high-risk scenarios, the...