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Mark Zuckerberg Joins the Military-Industrial Complex
Meta is making the perhaps inevitable move into defense contracting.
“Anduril and Meta are partnering to design, build, and field a range of integrated XR products that provide warfighters with enhanced perception and enable intuitive control of autonomous platforms on the battlefield,” the companies announced in a joint statement. The project also solves a specific problem for Meta: In the time since the company rebranded around the concept of the metaverse, it’s spent nearly $100 billion on VR and AR technologies, making plenty of technical progress in wearable hardware and optical research with little to show for it in terms of revenue. Early versions of Microsoft’s augmented-reality hardware, which had a tendency to make soldiers feel like throwing up, trace back to a contract the company won in 2018, when Oculus was still a relatively small unit within Facebook; in 2025, Meta, formerly FaceMash, is probably the most obvious private-sector partner for such a project.
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