The US Army’s augmented reality title program is under the control of Anduril Industries, which is rapidly rising in the field of defense technologies. The IVAS (Integrated Visual Augmentation System) project, which Microsoft has carried out with a long -term contract but stops its production due to various problems, will continue under a new leadership.

Pentagon’s approval is expected

According to a statement made by Microsoft and Anduril, the official transfer of the project is required for the US Department of Defense (Pentagon). When the approval process is completed, Anduril will manage the critical stages of the IVAS program such as production, hardware and software development and delivery calendars. Microsoft will continue to provide cloud information and artificial intelligence support.

IVAS aims to provide superiority in the battlefield by gaining night vision, virtual reality and augmented reality skills to the US Army infantry. In 2021, Microsoft was assigned to produce more than 120,000 private Hololes with a 10 -year agreement of 22 billion dollars. However, the fact that the project faced the difficulties and the stopping of hardware production last year made the program uncertain.

HoloLens adventure is over for Microsoft

Microsoft Mixed Reality CVP Robin Seiler, said in a statement, “We are moving away from hardware development, but as we announced in October, we will continue to provide support for Hololes2 hardware and software until 2027. We continue our commitment to IVAS program and our focus will form the foundation of IVAS as a situational awareness platform. We will shift to cloud and artificial intelligence technologies. “

Rising star Anduril

Anduril stands out as one of the new generation technology companies aiming to transform the defense industry. According to CNBC, the venture is conducting negotiations for a new investment tour of $ 2.5 billion with a valuation of 28 billion dollars. The company also announced in January that it will establish a production facility of approximately $ 1 billion in Ohio.

These developments make Anduril compete with the industry’s giants Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Palmer Luckey, the founder of the company, founded Anduril with focusing on defense technologies after leaving Facebook in 2017. Previously selling Oculus VR to Facebook for $ 2 billion, Luckey has long been an ambitious vision to unite the augmented reality and defense industry. In fact, Anduril aims to be a destructive company in the field of defense industry.

Luckey emphasized that leading the IVAS program is a “personal issue for him, and said that everything in his career is“ this main way ”. On the other hand, programs like IVAS become increasingly important, especially for land elements. While the modern battlefield becomes more and more “robotic ,, it is vital for human elements to benefit more from high -tech. Anduril is a company that integrates the software of its products with artificial intelligence in depth. In the future, IVAS is not known how the direction of IVAS is, but it is quite possible for staff to control dozens of drones with this title. In doing so, it may continue to see environmental developments on the screen.