For decades, reverse engineering has been one of computing's most demanding disciplines — a painstaking craft requiring deep expertise in assembly language, memory architecture, and the specific quirks of disassemblers like IDA Pro or Ghidra. That barrier is now eroding fast. A project called Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) is combining AI coding agents with industry-standard reverse-engineering tools, and the implications reach well beyond the security research community. Wh

India's Aeronautical Development Agency is making a decisive push to embed extended reality and augmented reality into the core of its aerospace engineering pipeline. In a compressed five-day window between September 17 and 22, 2026, ADA issued three separate technology tenders that together sketch a coherent digital engineering strategy — one that spans the full development arc from conceptual cockpit design through physical component inspection. Designing in the Virtual The

South Korean immersive technology company Sharebox is setting its sights on India, positioning the country not just as a new market but as a potential launchpad for its broader global ambitions. The move signals growing confidence that India's retail and entertainment sectors are ready for a serious spatial technology upgrade. Beyond the Screen Sharebox specializes in environments that demand participation. By combining artificial intelligence, extended reality, and interacti

Tesla has never been shy about spectacle, but the company's latest Roadster prototype may have finally crossed the line between automotive engineering and science fiction. Unveiled in a live demonstration that left onlookers either thrilled or deeply skeptical, the two-seater prototype didn't just drive — it launched, flipped, and landed with the kind of theatrical precision that felt more rocket test than car reveal. Rockets Under the Hood (And Everywhere Else) The headline

XR simulation specialist Skillveri is making a calculated pivot into healthcare, establishing a dedicated Medical Products Business Unit in Thiruvananthapuram, India — and the company's positioning suggests this is more than a speculative expansion. The new unit is being incubated at SCTIMST TIMed, the medical device technology business incubator affiliated with the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology. That address matters enormously. Rather than

For families navigating the day-to-day realities of autism, ADHD, or other learning differences, access to consistent, quality therapeutic support has long been a logistical and financial obstacle. Rewin Health thinks immersive technology can finally change that math. The India-based health tech company has officially launched JADHU, a platform that fuses virtual reality with AI-driven personalization to deliver structured skill-building sessions for children, teens, and adul

India deployed facial recognition and drones to prevent protests. How democracies use surveillance technology to suppress dissent and what it means globally.

From I.J. Good's intelligence explosion to Schmidhuber's Gödel Machine, Sakana AI's Darwin Gödel Machine, its crimson successor, and the labs racing to close the loop. Introduction: The Loop That Changes Everything Recursive self-improvement (RSI) is the idea that an AI system could improve the process by which it improves itself — a feedback loop where each generation of the system gets better at building the next. It's the mechanism at the heart of most "intelligence explos

Everyone is building the next big model. Almost nobody is building the next intelligence. There's a foolish, unspoken consensus in AI right now: if human-level AGI is coming, it'll come from frontier labs training bigger LLMs and wrapping them in better harnesses. That assumption is short-sighted — and almost certainly wrong. LLMs are powerful tools. They are components of AGI systems, and scaffolding for building them. But they cannot be the core of human-level intelligence.

India doesn't just participate in global maritime trade — it staffs it. As the world's second-largest supplier of seafarers, one in every eight sailors operating on international waters today received their training on Indian shores. That scale of responsibility demands infrastructure that can keep pace with increasingly complex vessels, tighter safety standards, and the looming reality of autonomous shipping. The Maritime XR Conclave 2026, held at the Indian Register of Ship

OpenAI's AI 'Dots' Face Safety Concerns Amid Autonomy Issues

Paper checklists have long been manufacturing's quiet liability. Misread, skipped, or filled out from memory hours after the fact, they're a system built on trust in an environment that demands precision. Volkswagen is now moving to close that gap, deploying an AI and augmented reality inspection platform developed by InfiVR to digitize shop-floor operations and take human inconsistency out of the equation. Instructions That Follow the Work Rather than consulting a printed sh

Stroke recovery is brutal. The repetitive upper-limb exercises that patients must perform thousands of times to rebuild motor function are not just physically exhausting — they're psychologically grinding. Dropout rates are high, physiotherapists are scarce, and hospital-based care is expensive. A Chennai-based startup thinks a VR headset can change all of that. Meet XTend Skillveri, founded by a Kerala entrepreneur and headquartered in Chennai, has developed XTend — a VR hea

I have been vested in virtual reality over the last decade, and I remain a steadfast believer in the technology’s potential. Yet, there are hard truths we must confront: as humans, we don’t adopt new things easily until they reach a value threshold that is simply irresistible. We transitioned from landlines to mobile phones, and those computers in our pockets became the interface the world is addicted to. We have rightful concerns about how these devices are used for data h

For decades, neuroscientists have faced an uncomfortable truth: the mouse brain, despite its utility as a research model, is a poor stand-in for the human one. The cellular architecture is different. The disease progressions diverge. Treatments that work brilliantly in rodents routinely collapse in human clinical trials. Now, a team at Stanford University has taken a radical step toward closing that gap — by growing human brain tissue inside a living mouse. The research, led

Lenskart isn't just selling spectacles anymore. The Indian eyewear retailer has completed its third investment in Dimension NXG — the parent company of XR hardware and software firm AjnaLens — pushing its total stake to 9.01% following an Rs 8 crore transaction finalized on September 13, 2026. The move is part of a broader pattern that's been taking shape throughout 2026. Across three separate stake purchases this year alone, Lenskart has deployed Rs 18.5 crore to grow its ow

Interactive AI content startup Flam has closed a $40 million Series B round, pushing its total funding to $62.5 million and signaling that enterprise appetite for immersive, AI-driven brand experiences is moving well past the experimental phase. The round was led by QED Investors, a fintech-focused venture firm increasingly diversifying into adjacent technology plays, and included a headline-grabbing new backer: the family office of Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan. The SRK Fami

Onboarding thousands of warehouse workers across dozens of countries is less a training problem and more a logistics problem — which is perhaps why DHL, one of the world's largest logistics operators, is solving it with the same precision it applies to its supply chains. In partnership with immersive tech firm InfiVR, DHL has deployed an AI-powered metaverse platform that places new hires inside high-fidelity digital twins of actual DHL warehouse facilities before they ever s

XTend, Skillveri’s VR-based software for post-stroke upper-limb rehabilitation, developed with the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology Stroke rehabilitation has a compliance problem. The exercises are repetitive, the progress is slow, and for millions of survivors, the motivation to keep showing up — physically and mentally — eventually runs dry. An Indian startup thinks immersive technology can change that equation entirely. Skillveri, in collab

There's something quietly profound about standing beneath a dome and watching the universe unfold above you. For generations of Delhi schoolchildren, science enthusiasts, and curious families, the Nehru Planetarium has been that place — a portal to the cosmos tucked inside the historic Teen Murti Bhawan complex. Now, more than four decades after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi inaugurated it on 6 February 1984, the planetarium is stepping decisively into the twenty-first century