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Lowest scoring sections were performance and deal, but it looks like it could be a lot worse Richard Speed Thu 15 Apr 2021 // 19:02 UTC Share Copy You arent the only one feeling like youre giving more than youre getting from your employer – a chunk of Microsofties are of the same opinion. A leaked employee survey seen by Business Insider gives an insight into what it is like to toil within the walls of Redmond. Microsoft itself did not wish to comment on the poll, it b...

iTWire Tuesday, 06 April 2021 08:40 Microsoft wins US$22b HoloLens deal to help army operations Featured Image by Dariusz Sankowski from Pixabay 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...

Controversial Hololens military deal moves into production phase at $22B Once demoed as augmented reality hardware for use with video games like Minecraft, Microsoft is moving forward with a $22 billion Hololens deal with the U.S. Army that will put the militarized version of the headset into production. While Hololens wasnt made exclusively for video game applications, when introduced in 2015 it was marketed as productivity and entertainment hardware, with its first concept d...

Over the past two years, Microsoft has worked with the US Army on the prototyping phase of what is called the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, or IVAS. The company said the US Army had moved into the production phase of the project. In a blog post, Microsoft technical fellow Alex Kipman said the headsets are designed to deliver "enhanced situational awareness, enabling information sharing and decision-making in a variety of scenarios". The headsets will be manufactured in the US, accordin...

Company enters production phase on augmented reality headsets for US soldiers