⊲ Popular Science ⊳ Engineers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have built infrared-sensing glasses that let wearers see infrared light alongside normal vision. The 23-gram prototype uses...
Category: Military & Security
Some of the Tech Behind British Army Training
⊲ The Guardian ⊳ Skyral, a UK company spun out of Improbable, is part of the Omnia Training consortium that won a £2bn Ministry of Defence contract to help train the British Army using digital...
Trending Towards 50:50 Live:Simulator
⊲ Varjo ⊳ Korea Aerospace Industries has spent two decades building an indigenous fighter pilot training pipeline around its T-50 Golden Eagle, exported across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe....
$30m Simulation-AI-Drone Convergence Bet
⊲ Tech.eu ⊳ Founded this year, UK-based defence startup Agon has launched with $30 million in funding to build a platform training AI-powered autonomous weapons in virtual battlefields. Founded by...
US Army’s Data Driven Adaptive Training
⊲ Team Orlando News ⊳ Brig. Gen. Christine Beeler, capability program executive of the U.S. Army's Capability Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, Test and Threat (CPE ST3), has...
Royal Navy Accelerates Warfighting Readiness
⊲ Halldale ⊳ Project Selborne, the Royal Navy's £1.26 billion shore based training programme, is preparing for Epoch 3, due to begin in April 2027, with a focus on faster warfighting readiness and...
Swiss Simulation Startup Backs Latvia Drone Training
⊲ LIAA ⊳ Swiss startup nordfen AG has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with "Drone Force Europe" to develop drone simulation technologies in Riga. Nordfen, which originated from the ETH Zurich...
Helsing Combat AI Trained in Days Not Years
⊲ YouTube ⊳ Dominic Hauschild, defence correspondent at the Sunday Times, describes AI fighter pilots developed by German company Helsing, whose simulators compress a million hours of training into...
3D Depth Sensing Reshapes Global Industries
⊲ MarketsandMarkets ⊳ MarketsandMarkets reports the global 3D sensor market will grow from USD 8.26 billion in 2026 to USD 21.45 billion by 2032, a CAGR of 17.2%. The technology, which captures...
3D Printing Cuts Simulator Production Costs
⊲ VoxelMatters ⊳ Wraith Systems has expanded production of its F-35 desktop Hands-On Throttle-And-Stick pilot training system by adopting 3D printing, raising output to 75 units each month while...
A Decade On: Revisiting the Simulation Singularity
Spotlight by Andy Fawkes "Will there be a world where the simulation may be just as good as the real world?" That's the rather grand question I put to a lunchtime crowd at London's Digital...
Preparing Troops For Combat Trauma
⊲ KentOnline ⊳ The article discusses the British Army's use of trained actors, employed by the Canadian firm Calian, to simulate mass casualty scenarios for soldier training. These actors, equipped...