⊲ New Atlas ⊳ Long sessions in VR headsets strain the head and neck, prompting Shogo Fukushima, an associate professor at Kyushu University, to develop a chair that delivers a personal 3D view...
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Europe Tackles Virtual World Fragmentation
⊲ Science|Business ⊳ At a Brussels summit on 10 September, the €2 million EU-funded OPENVERSE project showcased proven virtual world applications, including Changefied's VR simulations helping...
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...
Digital World Preserves WW1 Battlefield
⊲ Popular Science ⊳ Virginia Tech’s ARIES team is turning archaeological records from Belgium’s Dig Hill 80 into an immersive virtual experience. The First World War trench site was excavated...
Meta’s Slimmer Headset Images Leaked
⊲ Road to VR ⊳ Images of Meta's Project Phoenix mixed reality headset have leaked ahead of its expected unveiling at Meta Connect on 23 and 24 September. Serial leaker Luna found firmware footage...
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,...
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...
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...
Victorians Pioneered Virtual Property Tours
⊲ IanVisits ⊳ Researchers have revealed that Brooks and Green, a Victorian estate agency on Old Bond Street, used cosmorama displays to show wealthy buyers immersive images of country estates...
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....