⊲ GameDev.net ⊳ Khronos, the industry consortium behind widely used graphics and computing standards, used SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles to set out where those standards are headed next. The...
Author: Andy Fawkes
Andy Fawkes curates Simulation News. He is Special Correspondent for Military Simulation & Training (MS&T), co-chair of NATO MSG-234 on Training Data, and co-author of "The Military Metaverse." He also publishes r2.news, covering military drones, uncrewed systems and AI.
Gaussian Splatting Meets Autonomous Vehicles
⊲ Bosch UK ⊳ Five AI, the UK Cambridge based automated vehicle technology provider owned by Bosch, will develop a photorealistic simulation tool combining Gaussian scene reconstruction with...
Military-Civil Aviation Training Crossover
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ Military and civil aviation training share people, methods and technologies, yet formal exchange between the sectors remains limited. Skills can move well from military into...
£60m Immersive Tech & Analytics Sought by NHS
⊲ VR.org ⊳ The UK NHS Supply Chain has opened its Medical Simulation and Technologies Framework, earmarking £40 million +VAT for Lot 4, immersive technology and virtual clinical environments, and...
Simulated Lidar Data Speeds Up Surveys
⊲ Archaeology News Online Magazine ⊳ Archaeologists tested whether simulated training data could help AI models find rare features in lidar imagery. The study examined 12 unusual circular...
Virtualware Buys Manchester Visualisation Firm Virtalis
⊲ VR.org ⊳ Spanish software firm Virtualware has agreed to acquire UK Manchester's Virtalis, paying 5 million euros at completion. Virtalis is a profitable, twenty-year-old visualisation software...
Drone Training & Design Converge
⊲ Euromaidan Press ⊳ Ukraine is using the UFDS combat-drone simulator to train interceptor operators before they handle real aircraft. Accurate digital models of the P1-SUN and Bullet allow troops...
Factories Become AR’s Key Battleground
⊲ Global Sources Sourcing Digest ⊳ AR smart glasses are moving from laboratory breakthroughs towards a manufacturing contest. Advanced waveguides, metaoptics and metalenses offer lighter, capable...
Immersive Tech Reshapes Nuclear Decommissioning
⊲ Energy Live News ⊳ AtkinsRéalis, Sellafield Ltd and Igloo Vision have developed an immersive environment at the RAICo1 facility in West Cumbria to enhance nuclear decommissioning operations....
Boys Weaponising Smart Glasses Against Girls
⊲ Futurism ⊳ Teen boys are using smart glasses to secretly film classmates and teachers, with Futurism finding numerous videos involving harassment and bullying of girls. Footage recorded in...
Aerospace Simulation Shifts Toward AI Models
⊲ Aerospace America ⊳ At AIAA SciTech Forum 2026 in Orlando, panellists from NVIDIA, Neural Concept and Leonardo Helicopters discussed how machine learning surrogates now speed up aerospace design...
AR Helmets for Faster Triage
⊲ DVIDS ⊳ Georgia Tech biomedical engineering student Alissa Klein is researching augmented reality glasses for military medics during an internship at Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio. Her...