of the Integrated Visual Augmented System, or IVAS, in 2018. The new deal will involve providing production versions.
The standard-issue HoloLens, which costs $3,500, enables people to see holograms overlaid over their actual environments and interact using hand and voice gestures. Anthat a CNBC reporter tried out in 2019 displayed a map and a compass and had thermal imaging to reveal people in the dark. The system could also show the aim for a weapon.
"The IVAS headset, based on HoloLens and augmented by Microsoft Azure cloud services, delivers a platform that will keep soldiers safer and make them more effective," Alex Kipman, a technical fellow at Microsoft and the person who introduced the HoloLens in 2015, wrote in a . "The program delivers enhanced situational awareness, enabling information sharing and decision-making in a variety of scenarios.". The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The deal makes Microsoft a more prominent technology supplier to the U.S. military. In 2019, Microsoft
What happens to 0.1 billion?🤔
What the hell for? Do taxpayers get a say-so in the BS? With drones, ya don't need the danged headsets! It's a waste of $ when conventional warfare is no longer the future of warfare! Those monies can be used to end wars! KILLTHISDEAL
Blue screen of death... literally.
Josh 182k each. Really
Josh Managed to buy 100 shares of $MSFT at $236 as news broke.
Microsoft software was one of my first loves...wish I owned stock👍💖
Josh Good for them.... for sure!!
Josh This Microsoft?
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And Google was first with Google Glass? Leadership should be changed at that company