Six -year program Microsoft Make Hololens headset for the US Army Can get additional help. If the Ministry of Defense approves the transaction, the company will expand It exists Partnership C andDURIL Industries, Palmer Lacques LaunchFor the following stages of the integrated system of visual increase (IVAS).
Microsoft, which He headed the programwill proceed to the supply of AI and cloud infrastructure. Meanwhile, Iduril will do almost everything else, including “supervision of production, future development of hardware and software and delivery time.”
Andururi makes a wide range of protective technologies, including Drummers of dronesSentry Towers, Commed Jammers, Drones and even Autonomous submarineField but, given the experience of the hatch as the main inventor Oculus Rift – And, as an extension, the modern Consumer XR industry is the IVAS program, perhaps the most natural fitting protection.
Microsoft started Working with the army in 2019Using modified Hololens 2 For the headset, which was reported, it seemed a “real game Call of Duty. The early prototypes allowed the soldiers to see a virtual map showing the locations of their detachment, a compass and a grid of weapons. Thermal visualization served as an alternative to traditional night vision sets.
But the program was faced with speed speed, one of which was too familiar to many who tried poorly designed virtual games: This made them want to throw them. In addition to nausea, the headset also led to eye and headaches. Their voluminous, limited field of view and, possibly, worst of all – the emitted radiance (which could make them with easy elections for the enemy), also did not help.
Problems have contributed to Congress denying the request of the army to buy 6900 pairs As part of the bill on state financing of 2023. Instead, he allocated $ 40 million for Microsoft to develop a new version, which the army Accepted Later in the same year. However, the headset has not yet hit the battlefield.
Bloomberg reported On Tuesday, this early feedback with the latest prototypes IVAS is encouraging, but the army wants the cost to be “much less” than ”currently currently 80,000 dollars. The army may ultimately order up to 121,000 devices, but the new version would still have to pass the fight for hostilities with a high level of stress this year before moving on to complete production.
In December, Andili entered into partnerships with Openai for Develop AI for the PentagonThis transaction will force the ChatGPT manufacturer, providing its GPT-4O And Openai O1 Models for systems for protecting drones are Anduril for the military.