⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ BAE Systems OneArc and Varjo are using simulation to help militaries keep pace with rapidly evolving drone warfare tactics. Oliver Arup of OneArc says procurement cycles cannot...
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eXtended Reality
Museum Specimens Get Digital Afterlife
⊲ UCL ⊳ The Immortalising Natural History in 3D exhibition at London's Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition showed how micro-CT and 3D surface scanning create digital twins of museum specimens....
Glasses Grant Wearers Infrared Vision
⊲ Popular Science ⊳ Engineers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have built infrared-sensing glasses that let wearers see infrared light alongside normal vision. The 23-gram prototype uses...
AR Glasses That Tailor View Automatically
⊲ Inavate ⊳ Researchers have developed a new way to make augmented reality glasses show virtual objects clearly without blocking your view of the real world. The system uses light-polarising...
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....
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...
Samsung Advances Premium Wearable Technology
⊲ Seoul Economic Daily ⊳ Samsung Electronics used Galaxy Unpacked 2026 to launch "Intelligent Eyewear" AI glasses and the "Galaxy Watch Ultra2", pitching both as anchors of a premium wearable...
Royal Navy Accelerates Warfighting Readiness
⊲ Halldale ⊳ Project Selborne, the Royal Navy's £1.26 billion shore based training programme, is preparing for Epoch 3, due to begin in April 2027, with a focus on faster warfighting readiness and...
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...
Major Change in Aviation Training and Simulation
⊲ Halldale ⊳ The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has introduced a new regulatory framework for flight simulation training devices, moving from fixed types and levels to a...
A Decade On: Revisiting the Simulation Singularity
Spotlight by Andy Fawkes "Will there be a world where the simulation may be just as good as the real world?" That's the rather grand question I put to a lunchtime crowd at London's Digital...
The Eye as Battlefield Interface
⊲ Military AI ⊳ US firm Syntec Optics has secured new orders for optical components supporting AI-enabled military augmented reality headsets that use eye tracking to identify where soldiers are...
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...
Potential Civil-Military AR Crossover
⊲ Road to VR ⊳ Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril and Oculus, has revealed a prototype pair of compact augmented reality glasses believed to be under development at Anduril, claiming they deliver...
Smart Glasses Banned from Court Buildings
⊲ syracuse.com ⊳ New York's Court System will ban smart glasses and other recording eyewear from all court buildings starting 20 July. Video and photography have long been barred from courthouses,...
Rifle Becomes New Drone Controller
⊲ Military.com ⊳ The US-based startup PYRRHUS Aeronautics has developed LADRS, a rifle mounted device that lets soldiers control drones through weapon movement rather than a handheld joystick or...