⊲ 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...
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eXtended Reality
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...
Military-Civil Aviation Training Crossover
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ Military and civil aviation training share people, methods and technologies, yet formal exchange between the sectors remains limited. Skills can move well from military into...
£60m Immersive Tech & Analytics Sought by NHS
⊲ VR.org ⊳ The UK NHS Supply Chain has opened its Medical Simulation and Technologies Framework, earmarking £40 million +VAT for Lot 4, immersive technology and virtual clinical environments, and...
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...
Factories Become AR’s Key Battleground
⊲ Global Sources Sourcing Digest ⊳ AR smart glasses are moving from laboratory breakthroughs towards a manufacturing contest. Advanced waveguides, metaoptics and metalenses offer lighter, capable...
Immersive Tech Reshapes Nuclear Decommissioning
⊲ Energy Live News ⊳ AtkinsRéalis, Sellafield Ltd and Igloo Vision have developed an immersive environment at the RAICo1 facility in West Cumbria to enhance nuclear decommissioning operations....
Boys Weaponising Smart Glasses Against Girls
⊲ Futurism ⊳ Teen boys are using smart glasses to secretly film classmates and teachers, with Futurism finding numerous videos involving harassment and bullying of girls. Footage recorded in...
AR Helmets for Faster Triage
⊲ DVIDS ⊳ Georgia Tech biomedical engineering student Alissa Klein is researching augmented reality glasses for military medics during an internship at Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio. Her...
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...
3D Scanner’s Tiny Size & Power
⊲ Tech Briefs ⊳ MIT researchers have built a low-power chip, named Gleanmer, that lets tiny drones and other battery-limited robots construct real-time 3D maps of their surroundings using around 6...
Drone Warfare Rewrites Military Training
⊲ 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...