⊲ 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....
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Classic Social VR Finds New Life
⊲ heise ⊳ Microsoft's AltspaceVR, the social VR platform it closed in 2023, is being revived after Shane Harris, founder of SideQuest, a platform that lets developers distribute apps for Meta Quest...
3D Depth Sensing Reshapes Global Industries
⊲ MarketsandMarkets ⊳ MarketsandMarkets reports the global 3D sensor market will grow from USD 8.26 billion in 2026 to USD 21.45 billion by 2032, a CAGR of 17.2%. The technology, which captures...
Educational Design Beats Immersion
⊲ Cureus ⊳ US Researchers tested a new model for judging how well virtual reality, augmented reality and handheld ultrasound training work together in medical education. Forty one students finished...
New Chip Drives VR & AR Convergence
⊲ Tom's Guide ⊳ Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon Reality Elite chip, already powering Xreal's Project Aura smart glasses. The chip delivers a 60% faster GPU capable of 4.4K-per-eye rendering, a...
Neural Interface Expands XR Capabilities
⊲ UploadVR ⊳ PiEEG XR is a Quest 3 facial interface replacement that uses biosignal sensors rather than cameras to add expression and control options in VR. Designed for developers, researchers and...
XR Moves from Experimental to Operational
⊲ Simulation News ⊳ Spanish XR company Virtualware is presenting its VIROO platform at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris, positioning XR as operational military infrastructure rather than experimental...
Immersive Infrastructure Consolidates as a Key Element in Military Training: VIROO and Virtualware at Eurosatory
An Article by Virtualware · Extended reality (XR), encompassing immersive technologies, is no longer a technological promise but has become a real tool within military training. However, the...
The VR Before VR
⊲ Halldale ⊳ Royal Navy officer Henry Christian Stephens, a Battle of Jutland veteran turned photographer, developed one of the world's first virtual reality training simulators during the Second...
Immersive Collaboration Enhances Factory Planning
⊲ The Manufacturer ⊳ Glass maker Pilkington UK, part of the NSG Group, is using immersive virtual reality to reshape how its engineering teams design, test and validate manufacturing systems. At...
Air Force Trials Treadmill-Based Trainer
⊲ VR.org ⊳ Virtuix, maker of omnidirectional VR treadmills, has secured a US Air Force AFWERX SBIR Phase I award for its Virtual Terrain Walk platform, a feasibility study rather than a fielded...
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...
Important New Flight Simulator Regulation
⊲ Halldale ⊳ EASA has formally adopted a FSTD Capability Signature framework, which shifts flight simulator regulation from a fixed “tool to task” model to a “task to tool” approach. Instead of...
CAE Urges Pilot Training Overhaul
⊲ CAE ⊳ CAE's 2026 Blueprint argues that allied defence forces must overhaul pilot training to meet a more volatile geopolitical era. Legacy fixed-curriculum programmes are ill-suited to Generation...
Vision Pro’s Surgery World First
⊲ TechRadar ⊳ Apple's Vision Pro has been used in the world's first cataract surgery assisted by a mixed reality headset, with Dr Eric Rosenberg completing the procedure at SightMD in New England...