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 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
Back in 2018, Microsoft found itself in the middle of a controversy after selling $480 million worth of HoloLens headsets to the US Army. Employees spoke out against the decision at the time, but Microsoft stood its ground. Now, Microsoft has signed a much bigger contract with the military, selling $21.88 billion worth of newer HoloLens tech.
HoloLens tech has been used for the IVAS (Integrated Visual Augmented System) concept, which uses the AR display to show a map, thermal imaging and aim for a weapon. Under the new $21 billion contract, Microsoft will mass produce 120,000 custom HoloLens/IVAS headsets for the US Army.
Microsoft wins potential $22B contract to supply HoloLens AR headsets to US Army
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Microsoft Corp. has won a multibillion-dollar contract to supply customized HoloLens augmented reality headsets to the U.S. Army.
The contract, announced by the Army today, could be worth as much as $21.88 billion and will see Microsoft supply more than 120,000 headsets over the next 10 years.
Microsoft has reportedly been developing the Integrated Visual Augmented System since 2015. It’s based on the consumer HoloLens VR headset and augmented with Microsoft Azure cloud services. With the HoloLens, users can see holograms that overlay the actual environment they’re in, and they can interact with the virtual world it creates using hand and voice gestures.
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