⊲ New Atlas ⊳ Researchers at Northwestern University have built a 3D depth-sensing camera called the SpiderCam, modelled on the multi-layered retinas of jumping spiders. The creature's eyes capture...
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A Timely Event for Military Simulation & Training
⊲ Halldale ⊳ DSET 2026 opens at Cheltenham Racecourse on 23 June as European NATO defence spending reaches historic levels, raising urgent questions about how much reaches training and simulation....
AI Vision Guides Drone Flights
⊲ The Drone Front ⊳ Taiwan’s Aerospace Industrial Development Corp has introduced AIxVNAV, an AI-powered navigation system that enables drones to operate when GPS signals are unavailable or...
ITEC Showcases Military Training Innovations
⊲ Royal Aeronautical Society ⊳ Tim Robinson reports on the ITEC 2026 event, held in London, identifying key trends including the use of mixed reality for immersive training, the resurgence of...
Simulation + XR for Urgent Drone Training
⊲ Varjo ⊳ Juny, a Uruguayan combat veteran wounded three times by FPV drones while serving with Ukrainian Special Forces, now works with Applied Virtual Simulation on the Horizon Guardian...
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...
GTA V Becomes War Tool
⊲ Business Insider ⊳ Ukraine's defence ministry has revealed that FPV drone pilots train using Grand Theft Auto V between real missions, with a video showing a pilot flying a bomb into highway...
Simulation, Training and Operations Converge
⊲ Halldale ⊳ ITEC 2026, held at ExCeL London in April, brought together military practitioners, NATO officials and industry against the backdrop of conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. Air...
Rapid Simulation Terrain from Drone Surveys
⊲ OneArc ⊳ BAE Systems OneArc has signed a global reseller agreement with Skyline Software to bundle PhotoMesh into its SceneCast solution, creating an end-to-end workflow from drone survey to...
VR-Based Drone Countermeasure Training
⊲ DSEI Gateway ⊳ Australian company Operator XR, founded in 2021, unveiled its 'Interceptor' counter-drone training platform at ITEC 2026 in London. The virtual reality system trains military and...
Free 3D Data Capture to Exploitation Pipeline
⊲ DroneDJ ⊳ DroneDJ reports that DJI has launched DJI Reality, a free Windows-based 3D model viewer within DJI Terra, aimed at making drone mapping data easier to open, share and present. The tool...
Training Civil and Military Drone Pilots
⊲ Halldale ⊳ Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the US Army at Fort Benning are taking contrasting approaches to UAS training, yet both are working broadly towards the same end. At...
Simulation and Training in an Uncrewed Future
aka Drones - UAV – sUAS - RPAS - UMS – USV – UUV – UGV – OPV … Remotely Operated - Autonomous. This analysis by Andy Fawkes was presented at the Joint Military Training & Simulation...
Drones Add Oversight to Live Training
⊲ Halldale ⊳ The Australian Army recently tested the Enhanced Personal Area Network (EPAN) during Exercise Keldie Cup to modernise urban combat drills. This wearable laser system replicates weapon...
US Army Drone Training & Simulation
⊲ U.S. Army ⊳ Using OneArc's VBS4 simulation software, Fort Benning's Maneuver Centre of Excellence has added a 10-hour virtual drone familiarisation course to its One-Station Unit Training...
Simulation Accelerates Swarming Experimentation
⊲ ADS Advance ⊳ Applied Intuition UK, part of the $15 billion Silicon Valley company founded in 2017, has been selected to lead a consortium focused on advancing autonomous swarming capabilities...