Meta partners with US military contractor Anduril to develop AI-powered VR combat helmets
Anduril is working with Meta 'to design, build, and field a range of integrated [extended-reality (XR)] products that provide warfighters with enhanced perception and enable intuitive control of autonomous platforms on the battlefield,' according to a company blog post published Thursday.
Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of Anduril, also co-founded Oculus VR, the gaming headset company he sold to Meta in 2014.
At least one of those products will be a 'sci-fi-style military helmet' named 'Eagle Eye', according to Core Memory, an independent publication run by journalist Ashlee Vance.
'It's the thing that everyone's always wanted,' Luckey told Vance in an interview. 'People have called them different things. They've called them Call of Duty googles. They've called it, you know, the helmet from Halo.'
'These are old ideas that have only recently become really technologically viable.'
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