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Microsoft to provide US Army with HoloLens goggles worth $21.9B
Microsoft is expected to secure a deal worth $21.9 billion upon providing the US Army with HoloLens goggles, software, and hardware components, according to Bloomberg. The Microsoft HoloLens is an ...
TechSpot28d
The Army wants Microsoft to "substantially" lower the price of its $80,000 HoloLens-based goggles
In a nutshell: The HoloLens-based goggles that Microsoft is selling to the US Army have had a long and difficult history. While the hardware and software issues of the early models appear to have ...
Yahoo28d
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), based on its HoloLens headset. Not everyone was thrilled with the idea of ...
Road to VR29d
U.S. Army Needs Microsoft AR Headset to Be “substantially less” Than Projected $80K Price Tag
Microsoft’s contract with ... Price is also a “key factor,” Army acquisition chief Doug Bush says. At the annual Association of the United States Army (AUSA) conference last week in ...
Business Insider India26d
Microsoft lost billions of dollars on HoloLens, and its huge IVAS military contract is in trouble
Microsoft lost billions of dollars on its HoloLens mixed-reality project, and the company's involvement in a related contract with the US Army is in doubt, according to people familiar with the ...
Hosted on MSN29d
$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 ... Those comments were made during the annual Association of the US Army conference last week. Bush also shared the unit ...
winbuzzer.com28d
US Army Pressures Microsoft to Slash IVAS HoloLens Headset Costs
The US Army is putting the heat on Microsoft, asking for a considerable price cut on the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headset, a mixed-reality device based on HoloLens that’s ...
tech27d
US Army Wants Microsoft’s Kill-O-Vision Goggles—But Not at $80,000!
Microsoft in 2021 signed a $22 billion deal with the US Army in an agreement that requires the army to ... based on Microsoft’s HoloLens technology. The intention was to increase the soldiers’ ...
MIT Technology Review22d
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 ...