Microsoft wins potential $22B contract to supply HoloLens AR headsets to US Army SHARE 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.