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October 6, 2022

ARuVR Granted Patent for Ground-Breaking XR Presenter-Led and Multi-User Experiences

– New technology makes multi-simultaneous XR global training a reality – Three years’ R&D delivers zero latency for fully immersive and augmented VR/AR training

Frank Furnari, CEO & Founder, ARuVR

LONDON, Oct. 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ARuVR®, a multi-award-winning end-to-end, enterprise-grade Extended Reality (XR) training platform, today announced that it has been granted a patent by the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO). The title of the invention is “Virtual and Augmented Reality units, systems and methods”. The technology covered by the patent (which includes a total of 15 claims) solves many issues, including multi-user simultaneous VR/AR training solutions being so far only satisfactory for individual use due to the inherent latency issues associated with such real-time, high data payload applications. The patent is numbered GB2586627 and will remain in force for 20 years.

Following three years of research and development, the ARuVR® training platform enables enterprises to train in real-time multiple employees, in any location globally, through a multiway interactive AR/VR experience. Thanks to the patented technology and software, all participants, including the trainer/presenter, are able to collaborate in an immersive or augmented reality experience and to see what all participants are doing, in real-time with zero latency.

The invention is already present in the ARuVR® platform and to date, ARuVR® technology has been deployed by many leading enterprises, including Coca-Cola, BT, Rio Tinto, NEOM, Amazon, American Express, BP, Philip Morris, Barilla, PwC and many others.

Frank Furnari, CEO & Founder, ARuVR®, said: “Until now, the potential of VR/AR in a training capacity has been limited by its 1-2-1 nature and problems with latency. ARuVR® VR/AR training solutions significantly solve this, allowing enterprises to effectively communicate, collaborate and train their workforce at the same time, wherever they are, interactively and in real-time. Our technology innovation has been recognised with this patent and we, as a team, are immensely proud of what we have achieved.”

Marco Morbidini, partner at Kilburn & Strode, LLP, specialist Patent and Trademark Attorneys, said: “The granting of this British patent is testament to the problems that have been solved and the ingenuity of the team, particularly because the UK IPO applies strict legal tests to recognise patentability. We will be advising ARuVR® as it seeks patent protection for its technology innovation also in many other jurisdictions in the world.”

ARuVR® is pleased to announce that it will be at the Learning Technologies Autumn Forum at ExCel London (UK) on 13 Oct. 2022 on Stand #39. To attend for free, please register here.

About ARuVR®

ARuVR® is the world’s first end-to-end scalable turnkey Extended Reality (Augmented and Virtual Reality) solution for enterprises and public sector organisations. ARuVR’s suite of award-winning products enables in-house teams to quickly and easily create, distribute, analyse and manage both on-demand and instructor-led immersive, interactive training experiences – in order to develop new skills and better communicate and collaborate across the organisation. www.ARuVR.com

ARuVR® is a registered certified name in multiple countries.

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Frank Furnari, CEO & Founder, ARuVR

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October 6, 2022

UPDATE: Protector Completes Acceptance Test Procedures

ATP Completion Signals Official Handover of Aircraft to RAF

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SAN DIEGO, Oct. 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Acceptance Test Procedures (ATP) for the first Protector RG Mk1 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) system has been completed. Completion of ATP allowed for the official handover of the aircraft to the UK Royal Air Force (RAF), the launch customer of the MQ-9B RPA system developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI). Protector is a specially configured model of MQ-9B, designed to meet the unique requirements of the RAF.

The aircraft was accepted by Air Vice Marshal Simon Ellard, Director Combat Air at Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S), the procurement arm of the UK Ministry of Defence. “It was a great pleasure to accept the official handover of the first Protector aircraft on behalf of the MOD, following the successful completion of Acceptance Test Procedures. We now look forward to the first delivery of this highly capable aircraft type to RAF Waddington during 2023,” he said.

RAF Air Commodore Alex Hicks said, “The acceptance of the first Protector aircraft is a significant and exciting milestone in the delivery of this world-class capability to the Royal Air Force. The aircraft will be used to train RAF technicians how to maintain the capability prior to the arrival of the first aircraft in the UK next year.”

ATP was performed jointly by the UK Ministry of Defence and GA-ASI following the completion of the aircraft production and acceptance procedures. ATP includes all inspections and tests performed on the hardware in operation for the aircraft and in conformance with the functional specification and technical requirements. Over the past two months, ATP has been performed at GA-ASI’s Desert Horizon flight operations facility in El Mirage, California. The aircraft will remain in the U.S. to support maintenance and pilot training.

ATP was also completed on the first two sets of Portable Pre-flight and Post-flight Equipment (P3Es). P3E is laptop size ground support equipment that enables SATCOM Automatic Taxi, Takeoff and Landing Capability from anywhere in the world, greatly reducing the personnel and equipment fielding footprint. This game-changing capability eliminates forward-based launch and recovery crew/hardware/maintainers, as well as providing agile deployment with emergency divert field landing. Additionally, the P3E doubles as ground support equipment when directly connected to the aircraft.

“This is another major milestone for MQ-9B and the Protector program,” said GA-ASI President David R. Alexander. “The Royal Air Force has been a great partner for General Atomics, and we’re thrilled to see ATP completed for this first customer aircraft.”

MQ-9B represents the next generation of RPA systems, having demonstrated airborne endurance of more than 40 hours in certain configurations, as well as a GA-ASI developed Detect and Avoid system. Its development is the result of a company-funded effort to deliver an RPA that can meet the stringent airworthiness certification requirements of various military and civil authorities.

MQ-9B has garnered significant interest from customers throughout the world. After the UK Ministry of Defence selected MQ-9B SkyGuardian^® for its Protector program, the Belgian Ministry of Defense signed a contract for SkyGuardian. Later this year, the Japan Coast Guard will begin operations using the MQ-9B in the SeaGuardian^® configuration.

About GA-ASI

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), an affiliate of General Atomics, is a leading designer and manufacturer of proven, reliable remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) systems, radars, and electro-optic and related mission systems, including the Predator^® RPA series and the Lynx^® Multi-mode Radar. With more than seven million flight hours, GA-ASI provides long-endurance, mission-capable aircraft with integrated sensor and data link systems required to deliver persistent flight that enables situational awareness and rapid strike. The company also produces a variety of ground control stations and sensor control/image analysis software, offers pilot training and support services, and develops meta-material antennas. For more information, visit www.ga-asi.com.

Avenger, Lynx, Predator, SeaGuardian and SkyGuardian are registered trademarks of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

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October 6, 2022October 7, 2022

Cash Subsidy Programmes for COVID-19 and Inflation Affected Households

Cambodia has prolonged the national cash transfer programme for the poor and vulnerable households during COVID-19 and is preparing another cash subsidy to support risk-prone households amidst inflation pressure.
The cash transfer programme for the poor and vulnerable households during COVID-19 will continue until the end of 2022, said an announcement issued on Oct. 5 by the Royal Government of Cambodia.
The new cash subsidy programme to support risk-prone groups amidst inflation pressure to be launched soon focuses on near-poor households.
The programme will particularly cover people with disabilities, children under 2 years old, senior citizens from 60 years old up, women-led households and without husbands, families with all members are children and older persons without family members aged 19-59 years old.
It is expected that the cash support programmes will stabilise livelihoods of the mentioned groups of households amidst global uncertainty caused by COVID-19 and geopolitical tension including Russian-Ukraine war driving up market price of commodities across the world.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press

October 6, 2022October 7, 2022

Jailing of Theary Seng is a ‘bellwether case’ for Cambodia, lawyer says

International human rights lawyer Jared Genser is providing pro bono counsel to Cambodian-American lawyer and activist Theary Seng, who was sentenced to six years in prison in June on treason charges. She was sentenced on June 14 along with 50 other activists for their association with the banned Cambodia National Rescue Party, once the main opposition in the country before it was dissolved by the Supreme Court in 2017. On Sept. 30 the Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision to deny bail to Theary Seng. Genser, a long-time friend of Theary Seng, spoke to RFA Khmer’s Sovannarith Keo about strategies to press for her release.
RFA: Among a lot of things going on with the Theary Seng case, the Supreme Court just denied her bail. Also, Cambodia’s Interior Ministry hasn’t replied to a request from her lawyer in Cambodia to have her transferred back from Preah Vihear prison to Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison. What do you make of all these latest developments?
Jared Genser: I think the government of Cambodia has yet to get the clear message that its impunity is not going to be tolerated. I think ultimately they will get that message and they’ll understand that very clearly. I can’t say I was surprised by the decision of the Supreme Court or by the lack of response in terms of transferring Theary back to Phnom Penh, but nonetheless, of course, I condemn those decisions and unequivocally Theary is undoubtedly along with many other political prisoners in Cambodia who’s being detained for exercising her fundamental rights, her right to freedom of expression, to peaceful assembly and to political participation.
RFA: But the Hun Sen government chooses to uphold her detention rather than release her, per requests from the U.S government or the international community. In this sense, what are the consequences for the Hun Sen government if they choose to continue detaining her for as long as six years?
Jared Genser: Well, I think there is going to be an increasing amount of pressure on the government of Cambodia in a wide array of ways. I can say unequivocally based on my conversations in Washington and Europe and more broadly, that Theary’s case is a bellwether case. What is happening to her is provides a great lens into what is happening in Cambodia today. And the longer that Hun Sen detains Theary, the more people will know about his repressive regime and its unwillingness to allow political dissen,t and the way in which he keeps his iron grip on power. So we are going to move now in many different directions to ensure that the costs outweigh the benefits of detaining Theary in really dramatic ways, and he’ll ultimately have to make a judgment as to whether the costs are worth the benefits
RFA: In terms of effective advocacy, I see that there are a lot of international condemnations ahead of the ASEAN summit and immediately following her detention in mid-June. Do you see any expectation that there will be any leverage for the international community to put pressure on the Cambodian government to release her as soon as possible?
Jared Genser: Yes I think that there definitely will be. Again I don’t want to get out front of what we’re doing but there will be a couple of very high profile ways in which Hun Sen will understand quite clearly that the international community and the United States in particular is focusing on Theary’s case and that of the other political prisoners. We’re also of course going to be pressing President Biden to not meet with Hun Sen on a bilateral basis, but only agree to do so on a multilateral basis with the other ASEAN leaders. The longer that Hun Sen detains Theary and other political prisoners, the greater the consequences are going to be.
RFA: Will there be a statement from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention?
Jared Genser: They have to go through an extended process. So it will take some time. But of course once we file the case we’ll make public our submission to the U.N. so people can see what we were doing. We recently also had a very helpful report published by the Clooney Foundation for Justice and the American Bar Association. They had their own trial observer, an independent observer, observe her trial. And they recently came out with a very detailed report that gave the rating of F on an A to F scale, and condemned her trial as being totally inconsistent with the requirements of international law.
RFA: Talking about her conditions in the jail in a remote area in Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province, we learn from her lawyer in Cambodia saying that she was denied from practicing her religion and also she got a Covid during her jail time, as well as the overcrowded conditions and poor conditions in the jail. What are your reactions to that?
Jared Genser: This is again, a really dumb move on the part of the government of Cambodia. I mean she is a very high profile political prisoner. And the reality is that she is being treated terribly. And of course you know, if someone with her level of public attention is being treated so badly, what does that mean for the average Cambodian prisoner or the average Cambodian political prisoner? It means things are pretty terrible. You know, thankfully, Theary is strong of will and strong of body, and she is surviving one day at a time.
But, obviously, you know there are international law requirements for how a person should be treated in prison. And we are going to highlight obviously the violations of these international rules and regulations that are being committed against heroin in this case in terms of overcrowding or lack of access to medical care, the violations of a right to practice their religion. And also the arbitrary decision to keep her six hours away from Phnom Penh to make it more difficult for her lawyer and family to visit her. You know these are all very clear violations of her rights as our for example, the fact that she can’t send out letters. She can’t make phone calls or communicate via the Internet. Again these are all things that are designed to put more pressure on her and to make her life as miserable and to try to break her and I will say having known Theary for more than 20 years, there’s no way in which Hun Sen and his regime will be able to break her.

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October 6, 2022October 7, 2022

Centuries-Old Sandstone Naga’s Head Unearthed In Cambodia’s Famed Angkor Park

A centuries-old sandstone naga’s (dragon’s) head, was recently spotted in the vicinity of Tep Pranam temple, inside the ancient city of Angkor Thom, in Cambodia’s famed Angkor Archaeological Park, the APSARA National Authority (ANA) said.
The naga’s head sculpture was found, when a large tree fell down, causing the item, buried in the ground for many years, to emerge from the tree’s roots, ANA said.
Chhouk Somala, head of the art registration team of ANA’s department of conservation of monuments and preventive archaeology, said, the naga’s head sculpture was buried half a metre deep underground.
“When the tree got uprooted, the naga’s head sculpture was found in the tree’s roots,” he said. “The fragment of the naga’s head sculpture was the upper head, which was 1.2 metres long, one metre wide, and 0.3 metre thick.”
Somala said, the Bayon style naga’s head sculpture might have been built simultaneously with the Bayon temple, during the reign of Jayavarman VII, in the late 12th and early 13th centuries.
According to ANA, the discovered naga’s head sculpture has currently been kept at the Preah Norodom Sihanouk-Angkor Museum.
Located in north-west Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, the 401-square-km Angkor Archaeological Park, inscribed on the World Heritage List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), in 1992, is the most popular tourist destination in the country.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ancient park attracted up to 2.2 million international tourists in 2019, earning a gross revenue of 99 million U.S. dollars from ticket sales, according to the state-owned Angkor Enterprise.

Source: NAM News Network