⊲ Varjo ⊳ The Finnish Defence Forces Innovation Unit and Varjo are piloting training with a brigade-level unit to improve soldiers' readiness against drone and loitering munitions threats. Soldiers...
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Big Tech Backs 60 Years of XR Heritage
⊲ Meta ⊳ Meta has joined Google and Applied Materials as a founding sponsor of Extended Reality: Visions of the Future at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, running until 28...
Apple Faces XR Controller Uncertainty
⊲ AppleInsider ⊳ Sony has sold 419 extended reality patents to Meta, raising questions about the future of PlayStation VR2 hardware and its implications for Apple Vision Pro gaming. Apple's headset...
Every Living Room Becomes Arena
⊲ VFX Voice ⊳ Mixed reality is gaining ground as passthrough, room scanning and hand tracking mature on headsets such as Meta Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro, according to VFX Voice. Magnopus built...
New Steam Frame Wireless XR Headset
⊲ Thurrott ⊳ Valve has opened waitlist sign-ups for its Steam Frame XR headset, pricing the 256GB base model at $1059/£889/€1049 and a 1TB version at $1299/£1089/€1279. The wireless device runs...
Snap’s “Wearable Computer”AR Glasses
⊲ Engadget ⊳ Snap has launched Specs, standalone AR glasses priced at $2,195 that replicate much of a mixed reality headset's functionality without a separate puck, controller or tethered...
Eye Tracking Measures Pilot Airmanship
⊲ Varjo ⊳ UK training technology company Cineon’s TACET-M was trialled with RAF trainee pilots at RAF Cranwell, combining Varjo XR-4 mixed reality headsets, eye tracking and AI to assess...
Training and Simulation Get Spatial Audio Standard
⊲ audioXpress ⊳ MPEG-I Immersive Audio brings standardised 6DoF sound to VR, AR and mixed reality through compressed scene metadata and a normative renderer. It models geometry, materials,...
Gemini AI Coaching Arrives In Mixed Reality
⊲ 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,...
From Shotguns To Simulators: Ukraine’s Hard-Won Training Lessons
Martin Carr of AVS, Mikko Luhtava of Varjo and Kristine Kvam of Fynd Reality, one high-end headset maker and two training-system builders using it, recently joined a roundtable on how Ukraine's...
Virtualware Buys Manchester Visualisation Firm Virtalis
⊲ VR.org ⊳ Spanish software firm Virtualware has agreed to acquire UK Manchester's Virtalis, paying 5 million euros at completion. Virtalis is a profitable, twenty-year-old visualisation software...
Trending Towards 50:50 Live:Simulator
⊲ Varjo ⊳ Korea Aerospace Industries has spent two decades building an indigenous fighter pilot training pipeline around its T-50 Golden Eagle, exported across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe....