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2021-04-01 Government Corruption

Microsoft gets contract worth up to $22 billion to outfit US Army with 120,000 AR headsets

[TechCrunch] The killer use case for AR/VR might just be warfare.
Why is this man smiling ?
Today, Microsoft announced that it has received a contract to outfit the United States Army with tens of thousands of augmented reality headsets based on the company’s HoloLens tech. This contract could be worth as much as $21.88 billion over 10 years, the company says.

Microsoft will be fulfilling an order for 120,000 AR headsets for the Army based on their Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) design. The modified design upgrades the capabilities of the HoloLens 2 for the needs of soldiers in the field.

"The program delivers enhanced situational awareness, enabling information sharing and decision-making in a variety of scenarios," a blog post from Microsoft’s Alex Kipman reads.

The contract builds on the two-year $480 million contract that Microsoft won back in 2018 to outfit the U.S. Army with augmented reality tech. At the time, the contract detailed that the deal could potentially result in follow-on orders of more than 100,000 headsets. "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 spokesperson said in a statement sent to TechCrunch at the time.

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#1 Additional military R&D systems waste found here:

US Army enters final phase of development before kicking off Future Long Range Assault Aircraft program

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-01 06:51|| 2021-04-01 06:51|| Front Page Top

#2 A good movie idea would be a war movie where the deep state high jacks gaming competitions with actual real-time battle environments and has teenagers killing the enemy via gaming headsets.

Posted by Airandee 2021-04-01 07:20|| 2021-04-01 07:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Microsoft could finally be the king of gaming — if it spends $10 billion on Discord

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-01 09:21|| 2021-04-01 09:21|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Ender's Game?

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#5 and here is the answer to 'why would a corporation support one side or the other politically'

Posted by Blossom Wittlesbach3196 2021-04-01 09:24|| 2021-04-01 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 A good movie idea ...

See Ender's Game

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-01 09:24|| 2021-04-01 09:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Microsoft snags hotly contested $10 billion defense contract, beating out Amazon

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-01 09:26|| 2021-04-01 09:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Microsoft employees speak out against the US military's HoloLens contract

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#9 'World's biggest' video game cheating operation that made £55million selling hacks for games such as Call Of Duty is smashed by Chinese police

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#10 What could go wrong.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-01 10:48|| 2021-04-01 10:48|| Front Page Top

#11 A good movie idea would be a war movie where the deep state high jacks gaming competitions with actual real-time battle environments and has teenagers killing the enemy via gaming headsets.

I'll go back even further:

Toys.

In the same grocery aisle:

The Last Starfighter.

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#12 "Excuse me, it looks like you are attempting a base patrol. Would you like help?"

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Posted by swksvolFF 2021-04-01 10:56|| 2021-04-01 10:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Bringing a whole new meaning to the term "Blue Screen of Death".

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#14 And y'all thought $600 toilet seats were a waste of money.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-04-01 12:37|| 2021-04-01 12:37|| Front Page Top

#15 See through battle field smoke and smoke screens, night vision, see real time overhead drone and ground combat robotics on and above the battle field, share what others see from different points of the battle field, patch in to medics to allow them to assess wounds remotely, etc. etc. etc. etc....

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