⊲ The Register ⊳ AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs, the San Francisco spatial intelligence company co-founded by Fei-Fei Li in 2024, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion and...
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Flight Simulation Faces Big Questions
⊲ Royal Aeronautical Society ⊳The Royal Aeronautical Society’s 2026 Flight Simulation Conference will examine changes reshaping aviation training and simulation. Topics include EASA’s new...
AI Builds Simulator, Cracks Enigma in 2 Days
⊲ Tom's Hardware ⊳ GPT-6 Astra has cracked an 85-year-old German Enigma message after autonomously selecting the cipher and developing its own Python and C++ Enigma simulator and Bombe software....
Robots Build Ship Hull Digital Twins
⊲ Splash247 ⊳ Canadian developers are creating a robotic system that scans ship hulls underwater during routine port calls, producing detailed 3D digital twins. Led by Voyis Imaging with MarineNav,...
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...
Virtual Worlds Accelerate Robot Learning
⊲ BBC News ⊳ UK start-up Vsim, founded in 2022 by Lu and Storey after early work on Nvidia's Isaac Sim, uses high-speed GPU-optimised simulation to train robots in minutes rather than days. Its...
Snap’s “Wearable Computer”AR Glasses
⊲ Engadget ⊳ Snap has launched Specs, standalone AR glasses priced at $2,195 that replicate much of a mixed reality headset's functionality without a separate puck, controller or tethered...
Meta’s Camera-Free Smart Glasses?
⊲ TechRadar ⊳ Meta is reportedly developing camera-free smart glasses, codenamed Luna, in two styles called Clubmaster and Burbank, according to The Information. Lacking cameras, the wearables...
Meta’s Slimmer Headset Images Leaked
⊲ Road to VR ⊳ Images of Meta's Project Phoenix mixed reality headset have leaked ahead of its expected unveiling at Meta Connect on 23 and 24 September. Serial leaker Luna found firmware footage...
Training and Simulation Get Spatial Audio Standard
⊲ audioXpress ⊳ MPEG-I Immersive Audio brings standardised 6DoF sound to VR, AR and mixed reality through compressed scene metadata and a normative renderer. It models geometry, materials,...
AI Navigates Complex Interactive Virtual Environments
⊲ Tom's Hardware ⊳ An enthusiast known as CozyBlaze has demonstrated OpenAI's latest GPT-6 Astra model completing Valve's puzzle game Portal entirely autonomously, using Model Context Protocol...
Manhattan Rebuilt Inside Unreal From Photos
⊲ Something Big Is Happening ⊳ Matt Shumer, AI entrepreneur and investor, has used AI to rebuild Manhattan and his childhood neighbourhood, together with a playable zombie survival game, in Unreal...