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Palmer Luckey returns to headsets as Anduril companions with Microsoft on U.S. navy tech | TechCrunch


Palmer Luckey, the Hawaiian-shirt sporting founder who offered Oculus VR for $2 billion earlier than co-founding the navy tech firm Anduril, is again within the headset enterprise — in a way.

Anduril has teamed up with Microsoft to embed its software program into the Built-in Visible Augmentation System headset developed by Microsoft for the U.S. navy in 2021. 

In accordance with Wired, the software program can be included into the headsets as a coaching device however might additionally present troopers information about drones, floor automobiles, or aerial protection techniques which can be past their visible vary.

“When you have an augmented-reality show that may make you 20 p.c extra deadly or make somebody 10 p.c safer, that’s a much bigger enchancment than simply about any piece of drugs you could possibly provide you with,” Luckey tells the outlet. 

Anduril has been on a roll. In Could, it introduced touchdown a U.S. navy contract to construct an autonomous fighter jet. Final month, it closed on new funding that values it at a powerful $14 billion.