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Congress rejects US Army’s request for $400 million to buy Microsoft’s HoloLens goggles - SiliconANGLE

Anduril Earlier this month, posters started going up around Sydney advertising an event called “In the Ops Room, with Palmer Luckey”.

Microsoft is set to produce 120,000 military-grade augmented reality (AR) headsets for the US army worth an estimated US $22 billion.

Features will supposedly include thermal sensors, machine learning (to create realistic training simulations) and a digital heads up display to enhance soldiers’ “situational awareness”. The news follows Microsoft’s previous announcement of a US$480 million military contract to develop and supply IVAS prototypes to the army in 2018. Courtney Bacon Microsoft has reportedly been awarded a ten year contract worth close to US$22 billion, to provide 120,000 military-grade augmented reality...

Microsoft has reportedly been awarded a ten year contract worth close to US$22 billion, to provide 120,000 military-grade augmented reality (AR) headsets to the US Army. Popularised through mobile apps such as Pokémon Go and face filters on social media, AR technology is fundamentally about superimposing digital images over real-world environments. The AR interface commissioned by the US military is referred to as an “Integrated Visual Augmentation System” (IVAS). It will use Microsoft’s...