The Army’s $21 Billion Augmented Reality Helmets Will Save Soldiers’ Lives. Why Are They Still Delayed?
The headsets would give soldiers crucial information at a glance, creating a tactical advantage on the battlefield—but ...
US Army asks if Microsoft could please make its Kill-O-Vision headsets a bit cheaper
In 2021, Microsoft signed a $22 billion deal with the US Army to develop the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), ...
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U.S. Army Needs Microsoft AR Headset to Be “substantially less” Than Projected $80K Price Tag
Microsoft’s contract with the U.S. Army to build a combat-ready AR headset is worth up to $22 billion, but only if the company can deliver the goods at “substantially less than” the ...
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$22 billion Microsoft deal with U.S. Army could be in jeopardy unless the tech giant can get the price of its militarized HoloLens to be "substantially less than" $80,000 per unit
The U.S. Army wants Microsoft to reduce the cost of IVAS militarized augmented reality headsets to "be substantially less than" $80,000 per unit, which is the current project cost. IVAS has faced ...
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The Army wants Microsoft to "substantially" lower the price of its $80,000 HoloLens-based goggles
There was worse news for Microsoft that year when an army tester said that the headsets pose a danger to soldiers due to the light they generate while active, which could alert enemy forces to a ...
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Palmer Luckey on the Pentagon’s future of mixed reality
What a floundering military goggle project reveals about where our experiences with the technology are headed next, according ...
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Microsoft to provide US Army with HoloLens goggles worth $21.9B
(AFP) Microsoft’s HoloLens, also known as the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), is an augmented reality headset being developed for the United States Army. IVAS aims to equip US ...
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Microsoft lost billions of dollars on HoloLens, and its huge IVAS military contract is in trouble
The software giant recently confirmed plans to halt production of the HoloLens 2 headset and will ... reality goggles that Microsoft has been developing for the US Army. The Microsoft team that's ...
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Billionaire Palmer Luckey takes a victory lap with return to headset world 8 years after getting fired from Facebook
with the US Army's Integrated Visual Augmentation System headset, which relies on Microsoft's headset technology. "The idea is to enhance soldiers," Luckey told Wired. "Their visual perception ...