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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

BIS CRS for XR and VR Headsets in India (2025–2026): IS/IEC 62368-1:2023 Requirements and Impact

BIS CRS for XR and VR Headsets in India (2025–2026): IS/IEC 62368-1:2023 Requirements and Impact

January 11, 2026

Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2: The XR Chip That Makes “Generic” Silicon Look Clueless

Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2: The XR Chip That Makes “Generic” Silicon Look Clueless

January 11, 2026January 11, 2026

Your XR Controller Might Be a Smart Ring, Here’s Why That’s Not Crazy

Your XR Controller Might Be a Smart Ring, Here’s Why That’s Not Crazy

January 11, 2026January 11, 2026

Types of Lenses Used in AR, MR, and XR Headsets: Fresnel vs Pancake vs Aspheric vs Waveguides

Types of Lenses Used in AR, MR, and XR Headsets: Fresnel vs Pancake vs Aspheric vs Waveguides

January 11, 2026January 11, 2026

AR Windshield (Augmented Reality HUD): Optics, Eye Box, and Calibration Basics

AR Windshield (Augmented Reality HUD): Optics, Eye Box, and Calibration Basics

January 11, 2026January 11, 2026

Laser Beam Scanning Display for XR Glasses: How It Works, Pros, and Challenges

Laser Beam Scanning Display for XR Glasses: How It Works, Pros, and Challenges

January 11, 2026January 11, 2026

The One Device That Exposes Why VR Locomotion Still Feels Weird: XR Treadmills

The One Device That Exposes Why VR Locomotion Still Feels Weird: XR Treadmills

January 11, 2026January 11, 2026

Why Smartphone AR “Sticks” Until It Suddenly Doesn’t Explained

Why Smartphone AR “Sticks” Until It Suddenly Doesn’t Explained

January 11, 2026January 11, 2026

What Powers Quest, Vision Pro, and AR Glasses? SoCs, GPUs, Sensors, and PMICs Explained

What Powers Quest, Vision Pro, and AR Glasses? SoCs, GPUs, Sensors, and PMICs Explained

January 11, 2026January 11, 2026

Your XR headset might be leaking your office: XR Security and Privacy Risks in the Workplace

Your XR headset might be leaking your office: XR Security and Privacy Risks in the Workplace

January 11, 2026January 11, 2026

WebXR for eCommerce: The Feature That Boosts Trust or Kills It

WebXR for eCommerce: The Feature That Boosts Trust or Kills It

January 11, 2026January 11, 2026

Mixed Reality vs Virtual Production: Use Cases, Limits, Risks, and When to Use Each

Mixed Reality vs Virtual Production: Use Cases, Limits, Risks, and When to Use Each

January 10, 2026January 10, 2026

Why MR Training Beats Manuals on the Factory Floor: What Actually Improves, What Breaks

Why MR Training Beats Manuals on the Factory Floor: What Actually Improves, What Breaks

January 10, 2026January 10, 2026

Markerless AR Fails More Often Than You Think. Here’s Why

Markerless AR Fails More Often Than You Think. Here’s Why

January 10, 2026January 10, 2026

VR and XR in Defence and Military: Why Armies Keep Buying VR Headsets (And What Actually Works)

VR and XR in Defence and Military: Why Armies Keep Buying VR Headsets (And What Actually Works)

January 10, 2026January 10, 2026

Microsoft Quietly Left XR. Here’s What That Breaks and What It Means for XR Developers

Microsoft Quietly Left XR. Here’s What That Breaks and What It Means for XR Developers

January 10, 2026January 10, 2026

The Real Companies Behind Android XR (Not Just Google): Devices, Chipsets, Tooling, and Standards

The Real Companies Behind Android XR (Not Just Google): Devices, Chipsets, Tooling, and Standards

January 10, 2026January 10, 2026

Android XR vs Quest vs visionOS: Will Google, Meta, or Apple Win XR?

Android XR vs Quest vs visionOS: Will Google, Meta, or Apple Win XR?

January 10, 2026January 10, 2026

Who Pays for Android XR Today? First Buyers Reveal What the Platform Is Really For

Who Pays for Android XR Today? First Buyers Reveal What the Platform Is Really For

January 10, 2026January 10, 2026

Android XR vs OpenXR: Relationship, Differences, and Use Cases

Android XR vs OpenXR: Relationship, Differences, and Use Cases

January 10, 2026January 10, 2026

This 160-Year-Old Optical Hack Still Wins on Stage: Pepper’s Ghost Illusion Explained

This 160-Year-Old Optical Hack Still Wins on Stage: Pepper’s Ghost Illusion Explained

January 10, 2026January 10, 2026

Your Eye Isn’t Round, and Screens Expose It: The Optics of Astigmatism

Your Eye Isn’t Round, and Screens Expose It: The Optics of Astigmatism

January 9, 2026January 9, 2026

Light-Activated Drugs Are Getting Scary-Precise: Precision Photomedicine

Light-Activated Drugs Are Getting Scary-Precise: Precision Photomedicine

January 9, 2026January 9, 2026

Spatial Apps Are Not “Apps in 3D”, Here’s Why

Spatial Apps Are Not “Apps in 3D”, Here’s Why

January 9, 2026January 9, 2026

MicroLED vs OLED: Chasing Brightness-per-watt

MicroLED vs OLED: Chasing Brightness-per-watt

January 9, 2026January 9, 2026

Quantum-Grade Light Sources: What Makes Them Hard

Quantum-Grade Light Sources: What Makes Them Hard

January 9, 2026January 9, 2026

Stacked Image Sensors: Why It Reads Faster and Wins, Explained

Stacked Image Sensors: Why It Reads Faster and Wins, Explained

January 8, 2026January 8, 2026

800G Is Here. 1.6T Is the Hard Part. Understand Why 1.6T Ethernet Forces a Full-Stack Upgrade

800G Is Here. 1.6T Is the Hard Part. Understand Why 1.6T Ethernet Forces a Full-Stack Upgrade

January 8, 2026January 8, 2026

Quantum-Safe Optical Networks: From QKD to Ops

Quantum-Safe Optical Networks: From QKD to Ops

January 8, 2026January 8, 2026

AI-First Vision for Factory Quality Control: From 2D Cameras to 3D and Spectral Inspection

AI-First Vision for Factory Quality Control: From 2D Cameras to 3D and Spectral Inspection

January 8, 2026January 8, 2026

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Strained Germanium on Silicon Could Cut Chip Power and Heat

Strained Germanium on Silicon Could Cut Chip Power and Heat

December 21, 2025December 21, 2025

Waste Lignin Powers a Better Hydrogen Catalyst

Waste Lignin Powers a Better Hydrogen Catalyst

December 21, 2025December 21, 2025

Turning Insulators Into Emitters With Triplets

Turning Insulators Into Emitters With Triplets

December 21, 2025December 21, 2025

GyroSwin: AI Simulates Fusion Plasma in Seconds

GyroSwin: AI Simulates Fusion Plasma in Seconds

December 19, 2025December 19, 2025

How a Millet Genome Could Reshape Indian Agriculture

How a Millet Genome Could Reshape Indian Agriculture

December 19, 2025December 19, 2025

H5N1’s Two-Day Window: Why India Must Act Fast

H5N1’s Two-Day Window: Why India Must Act Fast

December 19, 2025December 19, 2025

Turning Mixed-Colour Bottles Back Into PET Feedstock

Turning Mixed-Colour Bottles Back Into PET Feedstock

December 19, 2025December 19, 2025

The Bay of Bengal’s Silent Role in Climate Control

The Bay of Bengal’s Silent Role in Climate Control

December 19, 2025December 19, 2025

Autophagy’s Broken Assembly Line and Alzheimer’s Risk

Autophagy’s Broken Assembly Line and Alzheimer’s Risk

December 19, 2025December 19, 2025

Sponge Microbes Could Help Remove Toxic Metals

Sponge Microbes Could Help Remove Toxic Metals

December 19, 2025December 19, 2025

Why “Untrainable” AI Models Aren’t Really Broken

Why “Untrainable” AI Models Aren’t Really Broken

December 19, 2025December 19, 2025

Can Multi-Target Therapy Change Alzheimer’s Outcomes?

Can Multi-Target Therapy Change Alzheimer’s Outcomes?

December 17, 2025December 17, 2025

Sunlight Breaks Tough C-F Bonds: Why It Matters

Sunlight Breaks Tough C-F Bonds: Why It Matters

December 17, 2025December 17, 2025

Fighting Fungal Eye Infections With Human-Derived Peptides

Fighting Fungal Eye Infections With Human-Derived Peptides

December 17, 2025December 17, 2025

India Builds CE-Certified AI Dialysis Machines at Home

India Builds CE-Certified AI Dialysis Machines at Home

December 15, 2025December 16, 2025

SHANTI Bill: Why India Is Opening Nuclear Power to Private Firms

SHANTI Bill: Why India Is Opening Nuclear Power to Private Firms

December 15, 2025December 16, 2025

India’s Homegrown CRISPR Gets 1300× Safer

India’s Homegrown CRISPR Gets 1300× Safer

December 15, 2025December 16, 2025

The Lancet ERCP Controversy and India’s AMR Reality

The Lancet ERCP Controversy and India’s AMR Reality

December 15, 2025December 16, 2025

Sunlight Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Value in Indian Chemistry Labs

Sunlight Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Value in Indian Chemistry Labs

December 14, 2025December 16, 2025

From Ramanujan’s π (Pi) to High-Energy Physics

From Ramanujan’s π (Pi) to High-Energy Physics

December 14, 2025December 16, 2025

Chandrayaan-3 Finds an Electrically Active Moon

Chandrayaan-3 Finds an Electrically Active Moon

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025

NIT Rourkela Builds a Robot That Reads Human Emotions

NIT Rourkela Builds a Robot That Reads Human Emotions

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025

Alaknanda Galaxy Shows the Early Universe Grew Fast

Alaknanda Galaxy Shows the Early Universe Grew Fast

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025

IIT-M’s VTMS: Why India’s Ports Just Got Smarter

IIT-M’s VTMS: Why India’s Ports Just Got Smarter

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025

IIT Madras’s Innovation for Cleaner Urban Streets

IIT Madras’s Innovation for Cleaner Urban Streets

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025

Deodar Trees Warn of Growing Himalayan Landslide Risk

Deodar Trees Warn of Growing Himalayan Landslide Risk

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025

Watching the Sun to Keep India’s Satellites Safe

Watching the Sun to Keep India’s Satellites Safe

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025

India Finds a Smarter Way to Speed Up Green Hydrogen

India Finds a Smarter Way to Speed Up Green Hydrogen

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025

Nanoplastics from PET Bottles May Harm Gut Health

Nanoplastics from PET Bottles May Harm Gut Health

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025

Why India’s GlowCas9 Matters for Gene Therapy

Why India’s GlowCas9 Matters for Gene Therapy

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025

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