Microsoft Sells Goggles To The U.S. Military

[Demon_Skeith]

In 2015, Microsoft showed off its fancy new HoloLens augmented reality goggles with a very impressive Minecraft demo. In 2021, the company has just agreed to sell “up to 22 billion” worth of headsets based on that original tech to the U.S. military.

As TechCrunch reports, while the military and Microsoft originally agreed to some kind of smaller augmented reality program back in 2018, this is a full-fledged deal to deliver 120,000 headsets over the next ten years, which will basically give soldiers access to all kinds of navigational, communication and awareness tools right in front of their face.

 

[froggyboy604]

120,000 is a lot of headsets, and $22 billion is a lot of money for the government to spend. Hopefully, these headsets will be built in America, and create many American jobs.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

120,000 is a lot of headsets, and $22 billion is a lot of money for the government to spend. Hopefully, these headsets will be built in America, and create many American jobs.

all blood money sadly.