Immersive, computer-based simulations have been around for nearly 50 years. The first ones, built in the 1970s, were created as a way of giving pilots experience and familiarity with an aircraft ...

This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Taylor Soper on Oct 27, ...

Salem-based CoActive Connections is raising money to create a new poverty-simulation curriculum that will better focus on the specific challenges facing many Oregonians today. Founded in 2010, the ...

How do you teach an autonomous drone to fly itself? Practice, practice, practice. Now Microsoft is offering a way to put a drone’s control software through its paces millions of times before the first ...

Stanford researchers have leveraged generative artificial intelligence (AI) to create a simulated town comprising various characters, each with unique identities, memories and behaviors. The ...

Digital Simulation Will Support System Development by NASA’s Intelligent Robotics Group Energid Technologies Corporation has been funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to ...

The Irish philosopher George Berkely, best known for his theory of immaterialism, once famously mused, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" What about ...

DARPA’s RACER program has been developing off-road autonomous combat vehicles that can travel as fast as crewed systems. The agency has now selected Intel to develop a simulation platform for these ...