⊲ What Car? ⊳ What Car? journalists visited Goodwood racing circuit to compare car simulators with driving a BMW M4 on the real track. This interesting comparison highlighted similarities and...
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Is AR the Future of FPV Drone Control?
⊲ Hackaday ⊳ FPV drone flying with augmented reality (AR) combines both the drone camera's view with the ability to see physical surroundings, enhancing situational awareness, safety and...
Low-Power Eye Tracking for Smart Glasses
⊲ Electronicsforu.com ⊳ ETH Zurich have published a paper introducing ElectraSight, an ultra low-power hybrid eye-tracking system for smart glasses, combining capacitive sensing and...
3D Gaussian Splatting: Transforming Simulated Worlds
⊲ A Simulation News Article ⊳ Redefining 3D Representation 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) may alter the foundation of digital 3D rendering by moving away from traditional polygon-based...
Car Holographic Windscreens and Brainwave Monitoring
▶ Source - PR Newswire ▶ Global no. 6 automotive supplier Hyundai Mobis will unveil its full-windshield holographic display at CES 2025, a first-of-its-kind AR innovation offering panoramic driving...
Global VR/MR Sales in 2024
▶ Source - PCMag ▶ In 2024, VR and MR headset shipments were 9.6 million, led by Meta’s Quest 3 and 3S commanding a 73% share. Sony’s PS VR2 follows with 9%, likely hindered by limited...
Brightline’s Spatial Computing Platform Funded
▶ Source - Morningstar ▶ Brightline Interactive, part of The Glimpse Group, has delivered a paid for advanced immersive simulation through its computing platform - SpatialCore - to a large...
AI Driver Trails Human F1 Racer
▶ Source - Ars Technica ▶ The Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL)’s autonomous race car, designed on a Super Formula chassis, demonstrated remarkable progress at Japan's Suzuka Circuit,...
“Genesis” Simulation Accelerates Robot Training
▶ Source - Ars Technica ▶ A new open source computer simulation, Genesis, accelerates robot training by simulating tasks 430,000 times faster than reality, using dynamic 3D physics worlds generated...
Interview with a Virtual Earth Architect
▶ Source - Rock Paper Shotgun ▶ In this interview with Jorg Neumann, head of Microsoft Flight Simulator, the article explores how the 2024 edition has pushed the boundaries of realism by...
MouseGoggles: Tracking Neural Activity Through VR
▶ Source - Interesting Engineering ▶ Researchers at Cornell University have developed MouseGoggles, a miniature VR headset with eye tracking for mice, using affordable components including...
Gaussian Splatting Enhances Military Simulations
▶ Source -Defense News ▶ The U.S. Army and USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies are enhancing simulation realism with “3D Geospatial Terrain - Large-Scale Gaussian Splatting.” This...