⊲ Science|Business ⊳ At a Brussels summit on 10 September, the €2 million EU-funded OPENVERSE project showcased proven virtual world applications, including Changefied's VR simulations helping...
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Shutters for Smart Glasses?
⊲ Immersive Wire ⊳ Tom Ffiske at Immersive Wire asks whether privacy concerns over smart glasses are teething friction for a new product category or something deeper. UK pubs, theatres and cinemas...
$8.2 Billion for Spatial Intelligence Start-up
⊲ 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...
UK Renews Command PE Wargaming Licence
⊲ Halldale ⊳ Matrix Pro Sims has secured a two-year renewal of the UK Ministry of Defence enterprise licence for Command Professional Edition, valued at £1.86 million. The licence allows the...
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....
Simulation Becomes Gateway To Promotion
⊲ Fox News ⊳ The Pentagon is introducing Joint Warfighting Evaluations for officers seeking promotion to general, adding simulated combat assessments to existing career evaluations. Each military...
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...
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...
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...
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....