⊲ TechRadar ⊳Xreal’s Aura smart glasses combine see-through 2K displays, a 70-degree field of view and Android XR in a lightweight design. Processing and battery duties sit in an external puck,...
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Meta Unveils AI XR Tester
⊲ Road to VR ⊳ Meta has introduced XR Operator, an experimental OpenXR tool allowing MCP compatible AI agents to autonomously build, test, debug and visually verify VR applications. Available...
Some of the Tech Behind British Army Training
⊲ The Guardian ⊳ Skyral, a UK company spun out of Improbable, is part of the Omnia Training consortium that won a £2bn Ministry of Defence contract to help train the British Army using digital...
A Decade On: Revisiting the Simulation Singularity
Spotlight by Andy Fawkes "Will there be a world where the simulation may be just as good as the real world?" That's the rather grand question I put to a lunchtime crowd at London's Digital...
Boost for AI Generated 3D Content
⊲ GamesBeat ⊳ AI company Tripo AI has secured $150 million in funding, following a previous $200 million round just a month earlier. The company focuses on developing generative AI tools for...
Self-Driving Veterans Build AI Simulations
⊲ TechCrunch ⊳ Odyssey, a world model AI startup founded by self-driving vehicle veterans Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has secured a $310 million Series B at a $1.45 billion valuation. Led by...
Gaming Grows and is Popular Across Generations
⊲ Variety ⊳ A recent report by the Entertainment Software Association reveals that nearly 70% of Americans play video games for at least an hour each week, with 212 million active players aged 5 to...
AI and Simulation Meet on Your Desk
⊲ NVIDIA ⊳ NVIDIA and Microsoft have unveiled RTX Spark, a superchip designed to shift Windows PCs from simple tools to digital teammates capable of assisting with work, content creation and...
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...
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...
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...
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...