Microsoft wants to hand over a large part of his Army Hololens to Anduril to Palmer Luckey
Microsoft’s six -year program to Make Hololens Headset for the US Army Additional help may be obtained. If the Ministry of Defense approves the deal, the company will expansion exist partnership with Anduril Industries, Palmer Luke’s launch launchFor the next stages of the Integrated Visual Enlargement System (IVAS).
Microsoft who headed the programwill move on to delivery of AI and cloud infrastructure. Meanwhile, Anduril would do almost anything else, including “production supervision, future hardware and software development and delivery time.”
Anduril makes a wide range of defense technology including Drone interceptorsSentry Towers, Comms Jammers, Drones and Even Autonomous submarineS But given the origin of Luke as the main inventor of Oculus rift – And, overall, the modern XR consumer industry – IVAS program may be the most natural adaptation of start -ups.
Microsoft started Working with the army in 2019Using a modified Hololens 2 for a headset that, according to the messages, feel like a “play in real life of Call of DutyS “The early prototypes allowed the soldiers to see a virtual map showing the locations of their squad, the compass and the box of their weapons. Thermal images served as an alternative to traditional night vision headsets.
But the program fell into speed irregularities, one of which was too familiar to many who tried poorly designed VR games: Made them want to throw. In addition to nausea, the headset also led to the eye of the eyes and headaches. Their bulk, limited visual field and – perhaps the worse of everything – a shine (which can make them easy to pick up for an enemy) did not help either.
The problems have contributed to the congress Refusal of the army’s request to buy 6,900 pairs As part of a government funding bill in 2023. Instead, it distributed $ 40 million to Microsoft to develop a new version that the army accepted Later that year. However, the headphones have not yet reached the battlefield.
Bloomberg reported On Tuesday, the early feedback of IVAS prototypes is encouraging, but the army wants the price to be “significantly smaller than” every headset currently predicted $ 80,000. In the end, the army can order up to 121,000 devices, but the new version will still have to go through a high -stress combat test this year before it goes into full production.
In December, Anduril partnered with Openai of Develop AI for the PentagonS This deal will make the Chattgpt manufacturer deliver his GPT-4O and OPENAI O1 Models of the Anduril Drones Defense Systems for the military.
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