⊲ Vice ⊳ XPeng, a Chinese electric car company, has introduced the “Road Rage Reliever,” an AR system that projects emojis like angry faces or running shoes onto the road via the windshield....
Tag: metaverse
Prada Meets Meta’s Metaverse Portal
⊲ AInvest ⊳ Meta’s Hypernova smart glasses are designed as the on-ramp to its $70 billion metaverse strategy. Reportedly launching in September 2025 at $800, they combine AI, gesture control via a...
AR Comes to USAF Fighter Cockpits
⊲ FlightGlobal ⊳ Florida-based Red 6 revealed on 15 August that it has received a contract from the USAF’s Air Combat Command to deploy its Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System (ATARS)...
VR, AR, AI Reshape Med‑Edu
⊲ Intelligent Living ⊳ The article discusses the evolving landscape of medical education, particularly in regenerative medicine, where traditional teaching methods are becoming inadequate. To...
Interacting with Distant Objects in XR
⊲ UploadVR ⊳ Researchers from Google and the University of Minnesota have proposed a new concept called "proxies" to improve how we interact with physical objects using mixed reality headsets....
AI Deskills 3D Model Creation
⊲ Windows Central ⊳ Microsoft’s "Copilot 3D" lets users turn a single JPG or PNG under 10 MB into a downloadable GLB-format 3D model via Copilot Labs, requiring only a Microsoft account. It handles...
From Physics Sim to Playground Giant
⊲ Sherwood News ⊳ Roblox CEO David Baszucki, known as “Builderman,” began with a vision to simulate 3D reality, not to create a children’s platform. Yet over half its users are under 16, and the...
Troops’ Untethered Operational Training
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ Soldiers from the UK's 6 Regiment (RLC) have undertaken operational training using an untethered, free-roam VR system called AVRT (Adaptive Virtual Reality Training). The system...
Towards AI-Generated Interactive Simulation
⊲ The Verge ⊳ Google DeepMind’s Genie 3 creates interactive 3D game-like environments in real time from text prompts. Unlike its predecessor, Genie 2, which allowed only brief interactions, Genie 3...
Your Wrist Can Control
⊲ Tech Xplore ⊳Meta’s Reality Labs team has developed a wristband that uses surface electromyography to translate tiny muscle movements into digital commands, enabling gesture control without...
VR’s New Power Players Emerge
⊲ GamesIndustry.biz ⊳ A new wave of 13–24-year-olds is emerging as key drivers of VR’s future. Described as “VR natives”, they are growing up with immersive technology and prioritising shared,...
Safer, Faster, Better Engineering
⊲ The Engineer ⊳ AI, AR, and computer vision are rapidly reshaping heavy industry and construction, enabling predictive maintenance, immersive training, and real-time safety monitoring. From...