Tag: metaverse

AR Comes to USAF Fighter Cockpits

⊲ FlightGlobal ⊳ Florida-based Red 6 revealed on 15 August that it has received a contract from the USAF’s Air Combat Command to deploy its Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System (ATARS)...

VR, AR, AI Reshape Med‑Edu

⊲ Intelligent Living ⊳ The article discusses the evolving landscape of medical education, particularly in regenerative medicine, where traditional teaching methods are becoming inadequate. To...

Interacting with Distant Objects in XR

⊲ UploadVR ⊳ Researchers from Google and the University of Minnesota have proposed a new concept called "proxies" to improve how we interact with physical objects using mixed reality headsets....

AI Deskills 3D Model Creation

⊲ Windows Central ⊳ Microsoft’s "Copilot 3D" lets users turn a single JPG or PNG under 10 MB into a downloadable GLB-format 3D model via Copilot Labs, requiring only a Microsoft account. It handles...

From Physics Sim to Playground Giant

⊲ Sherwood News ⊳ Roblox CEO David Baszucki, known as “Builderman,” began with a vision to simulate 3D reality, not to create a children’s platform. Yet over half its users are under 16, and the...

Troops’ Untethered Operational Training

⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ Soldiers from the UK's 6 Regiment (RLC) have undertaken operational training using an untethered, free-roam VR system called AVRT (Adaptive Virtual Reality Training). The system...

Towards AI-Generated Interactive Simulation

⊲ The Verge ⊳ Google DeepMind’s Genie 3 creates interactive 3D game-like environments in real time from text prompts. Unlike its predecessor, Genie 2, which allowed only brief interactions, Genie 3...

Your Wrist Can Control

⊲ Tech Xplore ⊳Meta’s Reality Labs team has developed a wristband that uses surface electromyography to translate tiny muscle movements into digital commands, enabling gesture control without...

VR’s New Power Players Emerge

⊲ GamesIndustry.biz ⊳ A new wave of 13–24-year-olds is emerging as key drivers of VR’s future. Described as “VR natives”, they are growing up with immersive technology and prioritising shared,...

Safer, Faster, Better Engineering

⊲ The Engineer ⊳ AI, AR, and computer vision are rapidly reshaping heavy industry and construction, enabling predictive maintenance, immersive training, and real-time safety monitoring. From...

Latency-Aware Wi-Fi is Coming

⊲ Capacity Media ⊳ Wi‑Fi 8, or IEEE 802.11bn, is being designed to handle the demands of emerging technologies including AR, AI and robotics by prioritising ultra-low latency and responsiveness....

Metaverse Goes Nuclear

⊲ ARCWEB ⊳ Hitachi has launched its "Metaverse Platform" designed for nuclear power plants, which uses advanced digital tools such as digital twins and AI to improve operations such as design,...