Palmer Luckey's defense company, Anduril, has gained control over Microsoft's $22 billion US Army contract for Integrated Visual Augmentation System goggles. This switch is significant given the program's troubled development. Anduril aims to improve augmented reality headsets that provide vital battlefield information, especially for drone identification. Luckey described this achievement in personal terms, reflecting on his journey from Oculus VR to Anduril and his ambition to solve critical national security challenges. The partnership with Microsoft had previously established Anduril's involvement, but now they fully oversee the program.
Everything I've done in my career - building Oculus out of a camper trailer, shipping VR to millions of consumers, getting run out of Silicon Valley by backstabbing snakes, betting that Anduril could tear people out of the bigtech megacorp matrix and put them to work on our nation's most important problems - has led to this moment.
Anduril would spearhead oversight of production, future development of hardware and software, and delivery timelines for the Integrated Visual Augmentation System program.
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