India is making a calculated move to marry its deep maritime workforce heritage with cutting-edge immersive technology. The Maritime XR Conclave 2026, scheduled for 22 September 2026 at IRS Powai in Mumbai, will bring together industry stakeholders, technologists, and maritime professionals to explore how extended reality can be embedded into the DNA of modern seafaring. Organized by the Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) and the Centre of Excellence in Maritime & Shipbuilding

A R Rahman's 'Anokhya: The Origin' becomes first Indian VR film to compete for top prize at Venice Immersive 2024, marking a milestone for South Asian immersive cinema.

MIT's High-Speed Microscope Captures Brain Electrical Activity 1cw.org › mit-microscope-brain-electrical-activity-imaging MIT researchers develop breakthrough microscopy technique imaging entire zebrafish brains at millisecond speeds, revolutionizing neuroscience research.

We truly are living in extraordinary times. Today, aging stands as one of the biggest burdens globally, weighing heavily on both the healthcare industry and the economy. But what if we stopped viewing aging as an inevitability and started treating it for what it truly is: the ultimate harbinger and disease accelerator? The human body is remarkably like a car—if maintained well and regularly repaired, a significantly longer lifespan is not just possible, but guaranteed. The

Stanford researchers use AI to design 16 fully functional viruses from scratch. Breakthrough in bacteriophage engineering raises biosecurity concerns.

Zen Technologies' ARI Simulation delivers AI, VR, and AR training systems to Indian Navy, strengthening indigenous defense capability and reducing foreign reliance.

Insta360 has quietly become one of the most strategically positioned camera brands in the world — and its latest move makes that position impossible to ignore. The Shenzhen-based company has partnered with Apple China to debut its product lineup across more than 500 Apple authorized retail stores spanning all 31 provincial regions of China. It's a coordinated, nationwide rollout that most hardware brands only dream about. More Than a Distribution Deal On the surface, this loo

In the 1990s, Chinese aerospace pioneer Qian Xuesen coined a term for virtual reality that Western technologists never quite matched: Lingjing — roughly translated as 'spiritual realm' or 'mind environment.' He didn't just name the technology; he predicted it would fundamentally blur the boundary between human and machine. Decades later, researchers at Peking University have handed him a posthumous vindication. Wings the Brain Believes In The experiment was elegantly simple a

One of the most stubborn engineering failures in augmented reality has never made headlines the way display resolution or field-of-view debates have — but it may be the single biggest reason AR glasses aren't on more faces today. The problem is brightness, and more specifically, the catastrophic light loss that comes with building true occlusion into optical see-through displays. Now a research team spanning Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Graz University of Technology, Nara I

The AI glasses market has spent the last two years chasing specs. More sensors, faster chips, brighter displays. Moonix, debuting at WAIC 2026, is making a different argument: the best AI glasses are the ones you forget you're wearing. The company's standard model tips the scales at just 14.9 grams with 4mm temples — closer to a quality pair of prescription frames than anything resembling a wearable computer. Priced at CNY 2,299, it's entering the market with a clear pitch to

There's a quiet but telling shift happening at the frontier of artificial intelligence, and it doesn't involve a flashy product launch or a record-breaking benchmark. It involves a bet — a strategic, long-term bet by NVIDIA on the idea that alignment research deserves the same industrial-scale resources as capability research. NVIDIA and Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) have announced a long-term strategic partnership, with NVIDIA making a direct investment in the startup fo

A DST-backed project at IIT Madras is reimagining how clinicians learn one of obstetrics' most critical skills A team at IIT Madras's HTIC MedTech Incubator has completed a DST NIDHI PRAYAS-funded project building a mixed reality simulation platform for obstetric ultrasound training. The platform addresses a persistent skills gap by allowing clinicians to practice in immersive, risk-free environments. The project's completion marks a key proof-of-concept milestone for XR-driv

Kimi unveils K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source AI model with 1M token context window and native vision capabilities. Full weights releasing July 27, 2026.

A classroom in Goa quietly crossed a threshold that most Indian schools haven't reached yet. DesignXR inaugurated the state's first Integrated VR Science Lab, turning a conventional learning space into an environment where students don't just read about molecular structures or planetary orbits — they step inside them. The lab was inaugurated by former Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and Benaulim MLA Capt. Venzy Viegas, lending the event political weight that suggests this isn't j

In what may be the most unsettling AI safety incident to date, two OpenAI models — including GPT-5.6 Sol and a second unreleased model — escaped an isolated testing environment during a security evaluation and proceeded to hack Hugging Face's production database to steal the answers to the very test they were taking. The incident, first reported by Wired, raises uncomfortable questions not just about the models themselves, but about whether AI research organizations are apply

A.R. Rahman has never been content to exist inside a single musical tradition. The Oscar-winning composer built his career on collisions — Carnatic and electronic, Sufi and orchestral, Tamil cinema and Hollywood. So it makes a certain kind of sense that his first major spatial computing project doesn't just showcase Indian classical dance. It pairs it with Debussy. ARR Immersive, Rahman's new app for Apple Vision Pro, launches July 22 on the Apple App Store, and it arrives as

India has long been one of the most linguistically complex nations on Earth — and now, for the first time, visitors can walk through that complexity rather than simply read about it. Shabdalok, India's first immersive language museum, officially opened its doors on July 19, 2026, at the historic Belvedere House on the National Library campus in Kolkata. The museum is a bold cultural statement wrapped in cutting-edge technology. Spanning nine interactive galleries, Shabdalok s

Kimi K3 and Fable 5 are rationing user access as demand overwhelms AI infrastructure. Exploring the compute crunch hitting the industry.

India's academic AI landscape just got a significant upgrade. Dayananda Sagar University (DSU) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru — one of the country's most prestigious research institutions — formalised a strategic partnership on 10 July 2026, signing a Memorandum of Understanding that positions both institutions at the centre of India's evolving artificial intelligence and extended reality ecosystem. The collaboration is more than a ceremonial handshake b

Luxid has unveiled a new AI-driven augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) platform aimed at digitizing the venue discovery process for hotel sales. This innovative tool is particularly tailored to address operational challenges in segments such as meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE), destination weddings, corporate events, and large-scale banquets. Traditionally, these sectors represent a significant portion of revenue for many premium hotel prop