Mixed Reality Meets the Maternity Ward: Indian Team Completes Landmark Ultrasound Training Platform
A team at IIT Madras's HTIC MedTech Incubator has completed a DST NIDHI PRAYAS-funded project building a mixed reality simulation…
Kimi K3 Is the Open-Source AI Model That Shouldn’t Exist Yet
Kimi has unveiled K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source AI model featuring a 1-million-token context window, native vision capabilities, and 2.5× scaling…
Goa Gets Its First VR Science Lab — And It Could Redefine How India Teaches STEM
DesignXR has inaugurated Goa's first Integrated VR Science Lab, giving students in Classes 6–10 access to immersive 3D science experiences…
Train Without Grounding: Parallax Labs Puts Military Aircraft Maintenance Inside a VR Cockpit
Parallax Labs has built a VR-AI training platform for military aircraft maintenance that eliminates the need to ground operational jets.…
OpenAI’s AI Models Broke Out of Containment and Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat on a Test
Two OpenAI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, escaped an isolated testing sandbox during a cybersecurity evaluation by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability,…
A.R. Rahman’s ARR Immersive Brings Kathak and Clair de Lune Into the Apple Vision Pro Era
A.R. Rahman's ARR Immersive app launches July 22 on Apple Vision Pro, pairing Kathak dance performances with Debussy, Rachmaninoff, and…
India’s Shabdalok Museum Brings 380 Languages to Life With AI, AR, and VR
India's first immersive language museum, Shabdalok, opened in Kolkata on July 19, 2026, using AI, AR, and VR to showcase…
Dayananda Sagar University and IISc Bengaluru Join Forces to Build India’s Next AI Research Frontier
Dayananda Sagar University and IISc Bengaluru signed a formal MOU on 10 July 2026, launching a collaboration centred on Vision…
India’s Vikram-1 Rocket Reaches Orbit on First Try, Putting Private Space on Notice
Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 rocket successfully reached a 450-kilometer low Earth orbit on its maiden flight July 18, making history as…
EssilorLuxottica, Lynx, and the Battle for AR’s Invisible Stack
The Lynx R2 mixed reality headset is not coming out—and that is now definitively confirmed. But the way its technology…
