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Tuesday, 06 April 2021 08:40
Microsoft wins US$22b HoloLens deal to help army operations
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Microsoft has won a contract which could be worth US$21.88 billion (A$28.58 billion) with the US Army to supply 120,000 custom HoloLens augmented reality headsets that will help soldiers who are at war.
Prototypes of the Integrated Visual Augmented System were supplied to the army under a US$480 million deal signed in 2018. The new contract involves the supply of devices that can be used in the field.
"The IVAS headset, based on HoloLens and augmented by Microsoft Azure cloud services, delivers a platform that will keep soldiers safer and make them more effective," Alex Kipman, a Microsoft technical fellow and the person who introduced the HoloLens in 2015, wrote in