⊲ 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...
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Simulated Lidar Data Speeds Up Surveys
⊲ Archaeology News Online Magazine ⊳ Archaeologists tested whether simulated training data could help AI models find rare features in lidar imagery. The study examined 12 unusual circular...
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...
Drone Training & Design Converge
⊲ Euromaidan Press ⊳ Ukraine is using the UFDS combat-drone simulator to train interceptor operators before they handle real aircraft. Accurate digital models of the P1-SUN and Bullet allow troops...
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...
Aerospace Simulation Shifts Toward AI Models
⊲ Aerospace America ⊳ At AIAA SciTech Forum 2026 in Orlando, panellists from NVIDIA, Neural Concept and Leonardo Helicopters discussed how machine learning surrogates now speed up aerospace design...
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...
Simulated Drone Warfare Exposes Weaknesses
⊲ TechRadar ⊳ During the Combined Resolve military exercise held in Germany in April and May 2026, Ukrainian drone forces disabled armour so rapidly that equipment had to be respawned into the...
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...