⊲ 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....
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eXtended Reality
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...