⊲ 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...
Category: History
Museum Specimens Get Digital Afterlife
⊲ UCL ⊳ The Immortalising Natural History in 3D exhibition at London's Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition showed how micro-CT and 3D surface scanning create digital twins of museum specimens....
The VR Before VR
⊲ Halldale ⊳ Royal Navy officer Henry Christian Stephens, a Battle of Jutland veteran turned photographer, developed one of the world's first virtual reality training simulators during the Second...
Simulation Weekly News
Military leaders are championing a rapid shift toward virtual modelling and experimentation for future battlespaces, with a senior RAF officer urging accelerated adoption despite ongoing struggles...
1936 Golf Simulator
⊲ What’s The Jam ⊳ A 1936 “Spotlight Golf Machine” is expected to fetch £4,000 at auction. This early golf simulator combines arcade-style gameplay with mechanical features from the interwar era....
Simulation Weekly News
⊲ 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...
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...
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....
Real World 3D Scanning Revolution
⊲ XDA Developers ⊳ 3D scanning technology is being applied in various fields, including reverse engineering, where it aids in recreating existing products and parts by capturing their precise...
The Computer Graphics Revolution Viewed In 1981
⊲ BBC Horizon ⊳ In this fascinating 1981 retrospective, the BBC documentary programme Horizon traced the rise of computer graphics from wartime radar screens to video arcades and cinematic...
Visit a Museum from Anywhere
⊲ Museums + Heritage ⊳ The University of Glasgow has launched a virtual museum dedicated to pioneering scientist Lord Kelvin as part of a £5.6m "Museums in the Metaverse" initiative. This virtual...
Spitfire Mixed Reality Flight Simulator
| Heritage Flight Simulation | In this video, the creator of Ireland-based Heritage Flight Simulation showcases advancements in Quest 3 mixed reality (MR) for a Spitfire cockpit experience....