⊲ Futurism ⊳ A new AI model converts static photos into explorable 3D environments using computer vision and deep learning. It analyses visual cues like shadow and texture to reconstruct depth and...
Tag: metaverse
Simulation Weekly News
⊲Last Week's Sim NewsSummary ⊳In a significant development for predictive modelling, Google's DeepMind announced its "Weather Lab" AI model demonstrated superior accuracy in short-range forecasts...
AR Emojis Tackle Road Rage
⊲ Vice ⊳ XPeng, a Chinese electric car company, has introduced the “Road Rage Reliever,” an AR system that projects emojis like angry faces or running shoes onto the road via the windshield....
Prada Meets Meta’s Metaverse Portal
⊲ AInvest ⊳ Meta’s Hypernova smart glasses are designed as the on-ramp to its $70 billion metaverse strategy. Reportedly launching in September 2025 at $800, they combine AI, gesture control via a...
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...