National Highways is testing low-flying drones to monitor UK roads, using VR simulations to assess driver distraction. The aim is to deploy smaller, cheaper drones by 2027 for more detailed road maintenance checks.
All 15 secondary schools in Sutton, London are piloting VR headsets from tech firm Phase Space in partnership with the local NHS mental health trust. The seven-minute VR programme helps pupils manage stress from exams, ADHD, anxiety, and difficult home lives. Nine out of ten pupils who used the headsets saw an immediate drop in stress, with improvements also seen in attendance and behaviour.
Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus, congratulated incoming Apple CEO John Ternus on social media by sharing a throwback to Ternus's early engineering work at Virtual Research in the late 1990s. Luckey posted a photo of the V8 head mount display, noting Ternus may have been the lead mechanical engineer on the device. Ternus joined Apple in 2001 and rose through the ranks to become VP of Hardware Engineering in 2013, overseeing products including iPad, AirPods, iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch.
