Meta to make AI-powered mixed headsets for US military

The US military can obtain artificial intelligence -enabled by Virtual (VR) and enlarged reality (AR) gear made by Meta, after joining the giant social media with defense contractor Anduril to form the devices.
Headsets will use Anduril’s AI-Powered Command and Control Systemthe lattice platform, to combine data from thousands of resources and provide real-time intelligence on the battlefield, Anduril Says on May 29.
It added that the headset will give soldiers a “improved understanding” and “intuitive control of autonomous platforms” while on missions.
“This integration will change how it is seen, feeling, and incorporating Battlefield information, which provides immersive technology solutions that enhance tactical decision-making in battle scenarines,” Anduril said.
The funding for the project is derived from private capital, and hope is the seizure of components and technologies originally built for commercial use and re -considered them for military applications.
Meta, formerly called Facebook after its flagship social media platform, went head to launch a Metaaverse In October 2021 and from the beginning Spend $ 40 billion To develop VR and AR technology.
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Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey, who also co-founded Oculus VR, a virtual reality company that Meta obtained in 2014, Says In a post of May 29 x that cooperation is the next step in its goal to make the soldiers a “technomancers.
“We have been working together on various things for a while now, but the first to go public is Eagleeye, the system I hope to continue to be the next soldier borne mission for the army,” he said.
Microsoft’s giant tech has first awarded the contract in 2018 to develop AR headsets for the US military based on the AR headset Hololens as part of the broader Soldier Mission command program.
However, in February, Microsoft Says Anduril took the rocks but it would continue to be a cloud provider.
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Last November, Meta opened it Language Language Llama with US military contractors and defense for National Security Objectives by Change The acceptable -acceptable policies of using it.
In the same month, AI firm Anthropic gave access to US defense departments in Claude 3 and 3.5 AI models in Include in the AI platform of PalanterThat -Secure to Amazon Web Services.
Meanwhile, in August, the intelligence firm Palatir announced a cooperation with tech giant Microsoft To sell AI and analytics services to defense and intelligence agencies.
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