Anduril Industries is a military technology company founded by Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey. It is working with Microsoft to improve the mixed reality headset used by the US Army. The project announced by Anduril will embed the company’s Lattice software into an Integrated Vision Augmentation System (IVAS), allowing HoloLens-based goggles to update soldiers with real-time information from drones, ground vehicles and air defense systems.
For example, Lattice’s integration with IVAS can alert the wearer to incoming threats detected by air defense systems, even when outside visual range. “The idea is to empower soldiers,” Lackey said in an interview. wired, “Their visual perception, their auditory perception – basically to give them all the vision that Superman has and then some, to make them more lethal.”
Luckey compared the IVAS project to Robert Heinlein’s 1950s infantry headphones. starship troopers novel, narrative wired The headset “has been put together the way science fiction authors imagined.”
Microsoft’s original IVAS headset, developed in 2021, combined integrated thermal and night vision imaging sensors into a head-up display, but was reported to cause headaches, nausea, and eye strain during testing. Microsoft improved the design last year to correct these issues, telling wired The IVAS platform will be “further refined” following additional testing in early 2025.
