Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think
- Microsoft is set to make prototypes of AR headsets that will feature capabilities including night vision, thermal sensing and instruments that measure vital signs.
- The military already uses AR in some applications, but it’s yet to implement the relatively new technology on a large scale.
- It’s unclear whether Microsoft employees will protest the recently announced contract.
Microsoft is set to supply the U.S. Army with augmented reality goggles to make soldiers more deadly in combat by helping them “detect, decide and engage” enemies, according to a government document.
The technology giant won the $480 million contract to supply prototypes to the military earlier this week, according to a Bloomberg report. Eventually, the two-year contract could lead Microsoft to make more than 100,000 AR headsets for the Army.
“Augmented reality technology will provide troops with more and better information to make decisions. This new work extends our longstanding, trusted relationship with the Department of Defense to this new area,” a Microsoft spokesman wrote in a statement.
The prototypes will likely be something like a modified version of Microsoft’s HoloLens, a…
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