On Thursday, Anduril and Meta announced news that appears to be a fairy -tale story ending with co -founder of Anduril Palmer Luckey. Both corporations work together on building augmented reality devices (XR) for the US Army, Anduril announced In the blog post.
“I am glad that I work with a finish again,” Luckey is quoted in the post. “My mission has long been to transform Warfighters into technomANTS, and the products that we build with the finish line do it.”
This partnership results from the next Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) program, previously called the integrated visual system (IVAS). Ivas was a huge military contract with a total budget of $ 22 billion, originally awarded to Microsoft in 2018, which was aimed at developing AR glasses much like Hololens for soldiers.
But after infinite problems, in February the army deprived the management of Microsoft and granted it to Anduril, and Microsoft remained as a cloud supplier. The idea is to finally have many suppliers of mixed reality glasses for soldiers.
All this meant that if the former employer of Luckey, Meta, wanted to make use of the potentially lucrative world of VR/AR/XR headphone sets, he would have to go through Anduril.
The devices might be based on technology outside the Relyite Research Center AR/VR laboratory, says Post. They will use the Meta Lamala AI model and will use the Anduril command and control software often called Lattice. The idea is to offer soldiers to display Battlefield interview in real time.
Luckey apparently feels good because of this reconciliation. Of course, he was released from Facebook in 2017, about three years after Facebook bought his startup Oculus for $ 2 billion. It happened after Luckey was involved in Broouhaha because of support for Donald Trump in his 2016 election. Luckey turned and founded Andurila in 2017 with co -founders Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens and Matt Grimm.
The spokesman for Anduril tells TechCrunch that building a family of products and Anduril is even called Eagleeye, which might be the ecosystem of devices.
Eagleeye is what Luckey called the first imagined Andurila headset in the draft on board Andurila, before his investors convinced him to first focus on building the software.
“Everyone worked with me for years via Oculus VR, and when they saw the Eagleeye headset in our first sketch on the Anduril pitch, they noticed that it seemed that I was sequential Irrationally. Luckey wrote on Twitter In February after winning the IVAS contract.
After Thursday’s news Luckey Posted to X: “It’s nice to have everything at your fingertips for this shared effort – everything I did before the meta acquired Oculus, everything we did together, and everything we did ourselves after release.”
And show that Luckey really buried the poplar, said that Anduril even launched Facebook page.