The Dynamic duo Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey meet for the army fighting glasses contract

Despite billions of dollars to get there, the meta-PDG Mark Zuckerberg and the founder of Oculus Palmer Luckey have never been able to make virtual reality a profitable consumer product. Combining again, the pair has found an audience more comfortable with a lot of money for slow development times and little return: the American army. According to a Bloomberg report, Andundril Industries of Luckey and the Meta platforms of Zucuck were one of the three companies exploited to produce prototypes for mixed style combat.

The project – which also invited a company called Rivet Industries which is led by the former mixed reality chief to Palantir to participate, in the event that you feared that they cannot assemble the complete axis of evil for this thing – will seek to rely on the massive army project of several billion dollars. The objective is to ultimately create “new mixed reality systems mounted on the helmet”.

The IVAS project will certainly be familiar to the crew of Luckey in Andundil, who took over the project after Microsoft has indeed abandoned its VR / AR ambitions – but not before putting a demonstration product which declared an army participant “would have been killed.” What they have done since taking over is not clear, although the project was renamed at the “Soldier Borne Mission Command” (SBMC), so that’s something.

There seems to be a lot of information that will help inform the new Goggles project. Andundil said that it would be guided by “more than 260,000 hours of feedback from soldiers from the IVAS program”, which comes after the army paid $ 1.36 billion in research, development, prototypes, according to Bloomberg. It looks like many of this information will be on what * not do, but it’s a start.

The project also seems to make the promised return of Zuckerberg and Luckey to collaboration after a bad fall in 2017. Earlier this year, the two technologies of technology promised to do the AR and VR technology of the “world in the world” for the American army under what they called “Project Elegleeye”. The wait was that the pair would make a joint offer for an army contract which was worth around $ 100 million. Although the details of this latest transaction were not made public by Andundil, the company announced that Meta was part of its offer and would be involved in the development of glasses. Rival Rivet Industries said his contract was estimated at around 195 million dollars, according to Bloomberg. So it seems that we can have a match.