Category: Technology

Repairability Sacrificed for AR Excellence

⊲ iFixit ⊳ Meta’s $800 Ray-Ban Display smart glasses house intricate waveguide optics that channel light through multilayered coated glass and internal mirrors, delivering augmented visuals via a...

Step Inside Your Own Space

⊲ Android Central ⊳ Meta has introduced Hyperscape, an experimental tool that lets users with a Quest headset scan real-world environments and convert them into photorealistic 3D models. These...

What’s That Hill? Binoculars Meet AR

⊲ TechRadar ⊳ Unistellar’s Envision smart binoculars use augmented reality to overlay real-time information of landmarks and constellations directly into the field of view, with over 200,000 stars...

Biometrics Meet Air Traffic Control

⊲ Halldale ⊳ The U.S. Air Force has awarded UFA a $1.8 million STTR Phase II contract to develop a mixed‑reality air traffic control training system that adapts in real time using biometric data....

Simulated Sound Sharpens Robot Skills

⊲ ⊳ The article presents "Multigen," a framework that integrates generative models into physics-based simulators to enhance multimodal robot learning, particularly in tasks requiring audio...

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 & AI Disrupt Manned Fighter Jets?

⊲ Sri Lanka Guardian ⊳ German firm, Helsing, has unveiled the CA-1 “Europa”, a four-ton, 11 metre fighter jet designed to operate without a pilot and execute AI-guided combat missions. Tested...

Pope Rejects Virtual Pope

⊲ eWeek ⊳ Pope Leo XIV has rejected the idea of an AI-generated “virtual pope” that could answer questions online, describing the concept as disturbing and unacceptable. He acknowledged the...

Linked Virtual Battle Portals

⊲ Medium ⊳ The article discusses the concept of the metaverse as a multiverse, particularly in a military context, as outlined in the co-authors' book, "The Military Metaverse." It contrasts a...

Gaussian Splatting for Consumers

⊲ CNET ⊳ Meta has launched Hyperscape Capture, a tool that allows Quest 3 and Quest 3S users to quickly create 3D scans of their environments using Gaussian Splatting technology. Gaussian Splatting...

Video Becomes Lifelike 3D Holograms

⊲ Auganix ⊳ Looking Glass, a provider of holographic and light field display technology, has introduced its Hololuminescent Display (HLD), a novel holographic screen that allows standard video...

Goodbye Discrete GPUs, Hello Chiplets?

⊲ PCWorld ⊳ Nvidia has invested around US$5 billion in Intel and will use Intel’s foundries to produce x86 processors that include integrated Nvidia RTX GPU chiplets. The article discusses the...