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Anduril takes control of Microsoft’s $22B VR military headset program


The Army has granted upstart weapons maker Anduril control of one of its highest-profile and long-troubled projects known as the Integrated Visual

The Army has granted upstart weapons maker Anduril control of one of its highest-profile and long-troubled projects known as the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, founder Palmer Luckey announced in a blog post Tuesday. The initial idea was to give troops a heads-up display with features like a thermal sensor, Tactical Assault Kit software (which provides various types of mission-critical information) and maps. “If Anduril had been more than a dozen people when IVAS was first getting spun up all those years ago (at least the Tragic Heap guys didn’t win, our country really dodged a bullet there), I do believe our crazy pitch could have won this from the start,” he continued.

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