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A US government watchdog is warning that the Pentagon may have wasted more than $22 billion on Microsoft’s HoloLens by ...

Firms/companies > M > Microsoft Microsoft signs $22 billion deal to supply high-tech headsets to US Army 05 April 2021 Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said it has won a nearly $22 billion deal to supply the US Army augmented reality headsets based on its HoloLens product. Under the contract, worth $21.88 billion over a 10-year period, Microsoft will supply the US Army tens of thousands of hi-tech goggles or augmented reality headsets, which is backed by Azure cloud computing services.  In a separate email to Janes, the Army confirmed the contract award value and said the deal has a base period o...

Dubbed the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), the headset is a unique deployment for Microsoft’s business-centric AR device, which is ordinarily supplied to customers for training and guidance purposes. Launched in 2019, the HoloLens 2 allows users to interact with three-dimensional holograms and popups through gestures, making it ideal for use by engineers and even medical staff. The US Army’s IVAS devices, however, integrate high-resolution night and thermal vision, as well as additional sensors, into a heads-up display (HUD). This, the US military has claimed, will provide s...

The deal reportedly could be worth more than $20 billion.

Microsoft may lose out on its $10 billion JEDI contact, but it just scored a $21.9 billion contract to provide the US Army with augmented reality (AR) headsets.