Meta is partnering with defense startup Anduril to develop new products for the U.S. military, including an AI-powered helmet with virtual and augmented reality features.
Meta is partnering with defense startup Anduril to develop new products for the U.S. military, including an AI-powered helmet with virtual and augmented reality features.
Anduril is working with Meta “to design, build, and deploy a range of integrated XR products that will provide warfighters with enhanced perception and enable intuitive control of autonomous platforms on the battlefield,” the startup’s blog post says, Bloomberg reports .
Among the developments is a sci-fi-style military helmet called Eagle Eye.
"This is what everyone has always wanted. People have called it different things: Call of Duty goggles, Halo helmets. These are old ideas that have only recently become really technologically viable," Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey said in an interview.
In November, Meta changed its “acceptable use” policy to allow its big-language AI models to be used by U.S. military contractors, including Lockheed Martin Corp., Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. and Palantir Technologies Inc.
The partnership involves an unexpected reunion between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey, who said he was ousted from Meta after a dispute over funding for a group that created anti-Hillary Clinton memes in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election.
