⊲ Shield AI ⊳ Shield AI's Aechelon business has outlined how its visual simulation tools support military flight training. Aechelon Nucleus generates correlated out-the-window and sensor views,...
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Gemini AI Coaching Arrives In Mixed Reality
⊲ TechRadar ⊳Xreal’s Aura smart glasses combine see-through 2K displays, a 70-degree field of view and Android XR in a lightweight design. Processing and battery duties sit in an external puck,...
Synthetic Populations Replace Costly Surveys
⊲ Bessemer Venture Partners ⊳ Bessemer Venture Partners' Atlas analysis explores the rise of AI-powered behavioural simulation, where synthetic populations replace costly surveys and focus groups....
Open Source UAV Flight Test Bench Emerges
⊲ Hackaday ⊳ Developer AlexanderRex has built PteroSim, an open-source test bench for simulating uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) from pre-flight validation to a full autonomy testing pipeline. The...
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...
3D Files Carry Looks, and Now Behaviours
⊲ GameDev.net ⊳ Khronos, the industry consortium behind widely used graphics and computing standards, used SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles to set out where those standards are headed next. The...
Gaussian Splatting Meets Autonomous Vehicles
⊲ Bosch UK ⊳ Five AI, the UK Cambridge based automated vehicle technology provider owned by Bosch, will develop a photorealistic simulation tool combining Gaussian scene reconstruction with...
£60m Immersive Tech & Analytics Sought by NHS
⊲ VR.org ⊳ The UK NHS Supply Chain has opened its Medical Simulation and Technologies Framework, earmarking £40 million +VAT for Lot 4, immersive technology and virtual clinical environments, and...
Simulated Lidar Data Speeds Up Surveys
⊲ 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...
Virtualware Buys Manchester Visualisation Firm Virtalis
⊲ VR.org ⊳ Spanish software firm Virtualware has agreed to acquire UK Manchester's Virtalis, paying 5 million euros at completion. Virtalis is a profitable, twenty-year-old visualisation software...
Factories Become AR’s Key Battleground
⊲ Global Sources Sourcing Digest ⊳ AR smart glasses are moving from laboratory breakthroughs towards a manufacturing contest. Advanced waveguides, metaoptics and metalenses offer lighter, capable...
Boys Weaponising Smart Glasses Against Girls
⊲ Futurism ⊳ Teen boys are using smart glasses to secretly film classmates and teachers, with Futurism finding numerous videos involving harassment and bullying of girls. Footage recorded in...