Category: Technology

A New Dimension in 3D World Capture

⊲ Digital Camera World ⊳ Ouster's REV8 Color LiDAR chip captures colour and depth simultaneously using a single lens and chip, abandoning the traditional pixel grid in favour of a point cloud of up...

EVE Online Helps Train Future AI

⊲ Engadget ⊳ Google has invested in CCP Games, the studio behind EVE Online, to support AI development using player behaviour and interactions inside the long-running online universe. The...

Eye Tracking Sharpens Aviation Training

⊲ Halldale ⊳ Wearable eye tracking is enabling aviation organisations to measure pilot attention and cognitive load in real time, moving beyond post-event outcome analysis. IATA data shows that 39%...

Rethinking Military Flight Training Effectiveness

⊲ Joint Air Power Competence Centre ⊳ The article examines how military aviation training can be improved by applying modern learning science, focusing on deliberate practice, feedback, and...

Dextrous Robots Train in Simulation

⊲ WIRED ⊳ Eka Robotics in Cambridge have developed a robot that demonstrates unusually fluid, tactile manipulation, from grasping keys to screwing in a light bulb. Cofounders Pulkit Agrawal and...

Survey Finds Over 37% Deploy XR in Training

⊲ Varjo ⊳ Varjo's State of XR in Simulation Training 2026 report, drawing on survey responses from over 100 defence and training professionals, finds that extended reality has shifted firmly from...

The Future of Phygital

⊲ The Drum ⊳ With Meta's metaverse set to close in June, The Drum gathered industry perspectives on the future of phygital. Experts largely agree the concept survives, but must evolve beyond...

China’s Smart Glasses Industry Matures

⊲ Immersive Wire ⊳ Sylvan Shen reports on China's rapidly maturing smart glasses industry. Brands such as RayNeo, XREAL, Rokid and Alibaba's Qwen Glasses are competing across three product...

Sony AI Serves Robotics Milestone

⊲ The Guardian ⊳ Sony AI's robot Ace has beaten elite table tennis players in matches played under official competition rules, winning three out of five against elite amateurs but losing both...

$60m Simulation Startup Targets Physical AI

⊲ TechCrunch ⊳ New York's Develop autonomy at the speed of software startup Antioch, has raised an $8.5 million seed round at a $60 million valuation to build simulation tools for robot developers....

AI Reducing the Gaming Pipeline

⊲ TechCrunch ⊳ TechCrunch reports that Roblox has upgraded its AI Assistant with agentic features that help developers plan, build and test games in Roblox Studio. Planning Mode can review code and...

A Single Photo Becomes a Simulation

⊲ The Decoder ⊳ The article reports that Nvidia’s Lyra 2.0 turns a single photo into a coherent 3D scene that can extend about 90 metres, with improved memory of earlier views and better resistance...