⊲ IGN ⊳ Independent developer Easy Fox has taken out a bank loan to keep its AI-powered driving game demo, Teach My Little Sister How to Drive, running after player numbers increased more than...
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Every Living Room Becomes Arena
⊲ VFX Voice ⊳ Mixed reality is gaining ground as passthrough, room scanning and hand tracking mature on headsets such as Meta Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro, according to VFX Voice. Magnopus built...
AI Plays Game Without Any Visuals
⊲ Tom's Hardware ⊳ OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra has cleared the Orc starting zone in World of Warcraft in 40 minutes without a death, and without seeing a single rendered frame. Instead of watching the...
New Steam Frame Wireless XR Headset
⊲ Thurrott ⊳ Valve has opened waitlist sign-ups for its Steam Frame XR headset, pricing the 256GB base model at $1059/£889/€1049 and a 1TB version at $1299/£1089/€1279. The wireless device runs...
Meta Unveils AI XR Tester
⊲ Road to VR ⊳ Meta has introduced XR Operator, an experimental OpenXR tool allowing MCP compatible AI agents to autonomously build, test, debug and visually verify VR applications. Available...
Yes or No to Smart Glasses?
⊲ UC Today ⊳ Largest UK pub chain Wetherspoon has clarified that it has not banned Meta smart glasses from its pubs, despite media reports suggesting otherwise. A spokesperson said the chain has no...
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....
Simulators Split Formula One Opinion
⊲ Motorsport Week ⊳ Oscar Piastri and Lewis Hamilton represent contrasting approaches to Formula 1 simulator usage, reflecting perhaps a generational divide in their preparation methods. Piastri,...
Potential Civil-Military AR Crossover
⊲ Road to VR ⊳ Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril and Oculus, has revealed a prototype pair of compact augmented reality glasses believed to be under development at Anduril, claiming they deliver...
Boost for AI Generated 3D Content
⊲ GamesBeat ⊳ AI company Tripo AI has secured $150 million in funding, following a previous $200 million round just a month earlier. The company focuses on developing generative AI tools for...
Fly the Earth in your Browser
⊲ CNET ⊳ Google Earth's flight simulator, a hidden Easter egg buried in its desktop app since 2007, is now freely available to all users via web browser with no download required. Anyone can open...
Simulators for Formula 1 and Beyond
⊲ Autosport ⊳ The UK's Bristol-based Dynisma Motion Generators, founded in 2017 by former McLaren and Ferrari engineer Ash Warne, supplies simulators to up to half the Formula 1 grid, including...