⊲ Royal Air Force ⊳ The Royal Air Force has awarded Boeing Defence UK a £16.9 million, two-year extension to 2028 to sustain the Gladiator simulation training system until 2028. Originally awarded...
Month: December 2025
Cross-Platform Digital Identity
⊲ TechCrunch ⊳ Netflix has acquired Ready Player Me, a developer of cross-platform avatar technology used widely in games and virtual environments. The deal signals Netflix’s intent to strengthen...
Stanford Builds Virtual Society
⊲ Stanford Graduate School of Business ⊳ Researchers at Stanford have created a virtual world with 20,000 AI-powered agents to conduct behavioural experiments, replicating an earlier Facebook study...
Building an Open Virtual Universe
⊲ Medium ⊳ The article discusses the public beta launch of RP1, an initiative aimed at creating an open metaverse. It comprises three main components: a world/game server for hosting a "spatial...
AI Drives Simulation and Robotics Convergence
⊲ TechCrunch ⊳ AI and simulation startup Runway has launched its first world model, GWM-1, which uses image frame-by-frame prediction to simulate real-world physics and behaviour. This model is...
Air Force Accelerates Wargaming
⊲ Defense News ⊳ The U.S. Air Force is developing an AI-powered system called WarMatrix to enhance wargaming capabilities, aiming for simulations that run up to 10,000 times faster than real-time...
EU Invests €200 million in Virtual Worlds
⊲ European Commission ⊳ The European Commission has launched a European Partnership on Virtual Worlds under Horizon Europe to coordinate research, innovation and deployment of immersive...
Drone Simulator for Warfighters and Gamers
⊲ Euronews ⊳A Ukrainian-developed drone combat simulator, Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator (UFDS), has been published on Steam with a military version also made available. The simulator mirrors...
AI Eclipses Metaverse in Tech
⊲ The Irish Times ⊳ The article discusses the decline of enthusiasm for the metaverse, initially hailed as the future of the internet, particularly during the pandemic. Meta, previously Facebook,...
Muscle Signals Replace VR Camera Tracking
⊲ Bioengineer.org ⊳ Researchers at Imperial College London have developed an ultrasound-based wearable that enables precise wrist and hand tracking for virtual reality without cameras or gloves....
Touch-Activated Graphics Made Real
⊲ Tech Xplore ⊳ University of California, Santa Barbara researchers have developed a screen that visually and physically renders 3D-like graphics using light-powered optotactile pixels. When hit...
Games & Simulation on Every Device?
⊲ The Verge ⊳ Valve is quietly funding open‑source tools that make Windows PC games run on Arm‑based devices. Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais spoke to The Verge and explained that hey are backing...