Researchers from the University of California Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine, in partnership with Chenega Healthcare Services, LLC and MedCognition, have been awarded $1.2 million from the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium to study the potential […]
The Air Force and Air Education and Training Command is introducing virtual and augmented reality technology with new ground instructional training aircraft, or GITA. A new GITA has arrived at the US Air Force’s Sheppard […]
The India Innovation Hub Accelerator Program has recently commenced and is open for startups working in the field of AR/VR in India to apply. The finalists will be invited to participate in a 3-month accelerator […]
The British Army’s Unit Based Virtual Training (UBVT) system created by NSC has reached full operational capability (FOC) after completing a series of events that demonstrated the system’s proficiency in collectively training troops in a […]
Airline maintenance personnel at Rolls Royce are able to practice highly complex tasks using virtual reality training due to the “massive drop in cost in the past 18 months”, according to Steve Buckland, the civil […]
The Naval Aviation Training Systems Program Office is incorporating virtual reality technology as it develops new flight simulation trainers for the F/A-18 Super Hornet, TH-57 Sea Ranger training helicopter and T-45 Goshawk jet trainer. Two […]
Revinax – a French company that provides virtual reality tutorials for medical and surgical applications – has begun using the mixed reality (MR) device – Microsoft HoloLens – to deliver demonstrations to training surgeons right […]
Neuro Rehab VR took first prize at University of Texas at Dallas’ Big Idea Competition. The medical start-up creates virtual and augmented reality therapy games to help patients with traumatic brain injuries, neurodegenerative diseases, or […]
Birmingham City University’s Digital Media Technology Lab is working on a mixed reality system that allows medical practitioners to view and interact with virtual models of organs and bones, and also change models of patient […]
Pieter Abbeel, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and students have a new start-up, Embodied Intelligence Inc., which uses deep reinforcement learning and artificial intelligence to easily teach […]
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