THE MILITARY IS DEVELOPING AUGMENTED REALITY NIGHT VISION GOGGLES
The U.S. military is developing night vision goggles that are loaded to the brim with augmented reality capabilities.
Some of the AR features are what one might expect from military goggles, like a built-in compass and targeting system, but Military Times tried out a prototype and reported back that the military’s AR goals are far more ambitious — signaling that the military’s ground troops could be in store for a major high-tech upgrade.
The demo was for what the Pentagon is calling the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), which is expected to enhance a soldier’s capabilities in combat by giving them new tailor-fitted ways to communicate and coordinate with each other.
IVAS is built on a custom version of Microsoft’s HoloLens headset. The headset is the end result of a $480 million military contract that Reuters reported — and which caused internal protests within Microsoft.
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