On Thursday, Anduril and Meta announced news that feels like a fairy tale that ends for Anduril Palmer Luckey co -founder. The two companies work together to build extensive reality devices (XR) for the US Army, Anduril announced in a blog post.
“I’m glad to work with Meta once again,” Luckey says in place. “My mission is for a long time to turn warriors into technologies and the products we build with meta are doing just that.”
This partnership comes from the next Command Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) program, previously called the Integrated Visual Growth (IVAS) system. IVAS was a huge military contract, with a total budget of $ 22 billion, initially awarded to Microsoft in 2018, which was aimed at developing AR glasses that look like Hololens for soldiers.
But after endless problems, in February the army stripped Microsoft’s management of the program and awarded it to Anduril, with Microsoft remaining as a cloud provider. The intention is ultimately to have multiple suppliers of mixed glasses for soldiers.
All of this meant that if the former Luckey employer, Meta, wanted to use the potentially lucrative world of the VR/AR/XR military headset, he would have to pass from Anduril.
The devices will be based on technology by the Meta Ar/VR Research Center Reality laboratories, the position says. They will use Meta’s Llama AI model and use Anduril’s command and control software known as Lattice. The idea is to provide soldiers with a heads-up depiction of Battlefield Intelligence in real time.
Luckey obviously feels good about this reconciliation. It was, of course, a famous shot from Facebook in 2017, about three years after Facebook bought Oculus startup for $ 2 billion. This came after Luckey’s involvement in a Brouhaha for his support for Donald Trump in the 2016 elections. Luckey returned and founded Anduril in 2017, with co -founders Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens and Matt Grimm.
A spokesman for Anduril tells TechCrunch that the building of the family of products and Anduril is called Eagleeye, which will be a device ecosystem.
Eagleeye is what Luckey was named Anduril’s first fantastic headset in Anduril’s Draft Deck Deck, before his investors persuade him to focus on building software first.
“All of them had worked with me for years via Oculus VR and when they saw the Eagleeye acoustic in our first Anduril deck, they showed that it seemed that the people I got out with were irrational. Luckey Tweeted In February after the IVAS contract.
After Thursday’s news, Luckey Posted on x: “It is very cool to have everything in our hands for this joint effort – everything I did before Meta was acquired by Oculus, everything we did together and everything we did ourselves after the launch.”
And to show that Luckey has really buried the hat, he said Anduril has yet begun Facebook Page.
