"The idea is to enhance soldiers," Luckey tells WIRED over Zoom from his home in Newport Beach, California. "Their visual perception, audible perception—basically to give them all the vision that Superman has, and then some, and make them more lethal."
With today's announcement, Lattice will be implemented in the Integrated Visual Augmentation System headset. Developed by Microsoft for the US military in 2021 and based on the company's Hololens system, IVAS is an augmented-reality display that blends virtual information with a user's view of the real world.
Anduril's core offering is Lattice, a suite of software that powers those tools and a platform that can integrate with third-party systems. Lattice will surface a lot more live information-pulled from drones, ground vehicles, or aerial defense systems—for soldiers wearing IVAS.
Luckey cofounded Anduril in 2017 after selling Oculus VR to Facebook for a reported $2 billion. His new company set out to challenge incumbent defense contractors by moving swiftly and efficiently, focusing more on software, and adapting technologies from the tech industry for military use.
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