⊲ 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,...
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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...
AI Lowers Barriers to Game Building
⊲ TechCrunch ⊳ Roblox is strengthening its AI toolkit to make 3D development more fluid. Beyond generating static assets, creators will soon be able to build fully functional objects, beginning...
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...
AI Glasses Translate In Real Time
⊲ Digital Trends ⊳ The article reviews the Rokid AI Glasses, highlighting their innovative features, including real-time translation for conversations and images, a teleprompter mode beneficial for...
Explore Your 2D Memories in 3D
⊲ Futurism ⊳ A new AI model converts static photos into explorable 3D environments using computer vision and deep learning. It analyses visual cues like shadow and texture to reconstruct depth and...
Digital Twins Make Buildings Smarter
⊲ Scientific Reports ⊳ This study introduces MD-DTT-BIM, a system combining digital twins, Building Information Modelling (BIM), AI, and sensor networks for smarter building operations. The digital...
XR Boosts Access to Army Training
⊲ Halldale ⊳ US Company Mass Virtual and the US Army have collaborated to create an XR-equipped classroom for aerial intelligence training at Fort Bliss. The initiative addresses gaps in...
Rail Training Goes Virtual
⊲ Transport for Wales ⊳ Transport for Wales (TfW) reports it is the first UK train operator to introduce VR-based training for front-line staff, using a simulation of the new Class 197 trains....
Practising for Nuclear Armageddon
⊲ Business Insider ⊳ At the National Museum of the US Air Force, visitors can see a Cold War-era Minuteman II missile procedures trainer once used to prepare crews for launching nuclear weapons....
Simulation Weekly News
⊲Last Week's Sim NewsSummary ⊳In a significant development for predictive modelling, Google's DeepMind announced its "Weather Lab" AI model demonstrated superior accuracy in short-range forecasts...
Enhancing XR Battery Life & Accuracy
⊲ New Electronics ⊳ VoxelSensors, a Belgian company, is collaborating with Qualcomm to improve its depth sensing technology, known as Single Photon Active Event Sensor (SPAES), for XR...