⊲ Financial Times ⊳ Apple has acquired Israeli start-up Q.AI for nearly $2 billion, marking its second-largest acquisition. Q.AI's technology interprets facial expressions for "silent speech,"...
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DeepMind Models 4 Dimensional Perception
⊲ Google DeepMind Blog ⊳ Google DeepMind have announced D4RT, a research model designed to help AI systems understand how three-dimensional scenes change over time. By learning from video, depth...
Level D and XR Based Simulators Coexist
⊲ Vertical Magazine ⊳The article describes how European helicopter training providers are balancing traditional simulators with new virtual and mixed reality systems to meet diverse operator needs...
Google Acquires 2D-to-3D AI Modelling Startup
⊲ AICerts ⊳ Google has acquired Cambridge-based (US) AI startup Common Sense Machines (CSM) to strengthen its spatial computing and 3D mapping abilities. It brings CSM's team and 2D-to-3D AI...
U.S. Navy’s Portable VR-Based Trainer
⊲ Halldale ⊳ The U.S. Navy has demonstrated a portable virtual reality bridge training system aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt, confirming its use in live operational conditions. The Virtual Bridge...
XR Beyond Sight & Sound
⊲ Computer Weekly ⊳ The article explores how virtual worlds are beginning to better mirror real-world experience by engaging more human senses than sight and sound alone. It describes how haptics,...
European Headset Challenges US Domination
⊲ Igor'sLAB ⊳ Stan Larroque and Lynx launch the R2 headset, offering a sovereign European path for mixed reality. This hardware avoids the mandatory data tracking seen in dominant American...
Cutting-Edge Immersive Platform
⊲ ST Engineering Antycip ⊳ Antycip has upgraded the University of Lille’s TORE (The Open Reality Experience) immersive environment with enhanced 4K projection, advanced calibration and modern...
Impact of AI Data Centre Demand Widens
⊲ Ars Technica ⊳ As RAM prices surge by 300-400%, the ongoing global RAM supply crunch, driven largely by demand from AI data centres for memory and related components, has started to push scarcity...
Space Wars Simulation Ecosystem
⊲ Slingshot Space ⊳ US satellite tracking company Slingshot Aerospace has secured a $27 million contract to enhance the U.S. Space Force’s Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (OTTI) by...
Simulators Support New Electric Aircraft
⊲ Investing News Network ⊳ Joby Aviation has completed the first of two next-generation flight simulators, developed with CAE, to support pilot training for its commercial single-pilot eVTOL...
Australian Navy’s Serco Simulation Contract
⊲ Serco ⊳ Serco has secured a renewed and expanded contract to deliver maritime warfare training for the Royal Australian Navy at HMAS Watson and HMAS Stirling. Building on a partnership that began...