Palmer Luckey’s Anduril Launches Eagleeye Military Helmet With Help From Buddy Zuck

EagleEye includes “helmet-native hardware" designed for nan battlefield.

Anduril, nan subject tech institution founded by Oculus creator Palmer Luckey, has announced nan first hardware to travel retired of its caller business pinch Meta: EagleEye, an AI-powered mixed-reality (MR) strategy designed to beryllium built into soldiers’ helmets.

The modular hardware is simply a “family of systems,” according to Anduril’s announcement, including a heads-up display, spatial audio, and power wave detection. It tin show ngo briefings and orders, overlay maps and different accusation during combat, and power drones and subject robotics.

“We don’t want to springiness work members a caller tool—we’re giving them a caller teammate,” says Luckey. “The thought of an AI partner embedded successful your show has been imagined for decades. EagleEye is nan first clip it’s real.”

Anduril, which besides manufactures border power tech, lethal drones, and military aircraft, has been processing EagleEye since its inception, and already provides software for nan Army’s existing MR goggles, based connected Microsoft’s HoloLens hardware. 

Its business pinch Meta was announced this May, and nan institution told TechCrunch astatine nan clip that nan collaboration was to create EagleEye. It’s a reunion of sorts for Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg, aft Meta purchased Luckey’s then-start-up Oculus successful 2014 and fired nan founder 3 years later. 

“I americium gladsome to beryllium moving pinch Meta erstwhile again,” Luckey said successful a blog post astatine nan time. “My ngo has agelong been to move warfighters into technomancers, and nan products we are building pinch Meta do conscionable that.”