{"id":216711,"date":"2021-04-01T19:41:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/microsoft-wins-22-billion-deal-to-make-ar-headsets-for-us-army\/"},"modified":"2021-04-01T19:41:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:41:30","slug":"microsoft-wins-22-billion-deal-to-make-ar-headsets-for-us-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/microsoft-wins-22-billion-deal-to-make-ar-headsets-for-us-army\/","title":{"rendered":"#Microsoft wins $22 billion deal to make AR headsets for US Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Microsoft wins $22 billion deal to make AR headsets for US Army<\/strong>”
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Microsoft won a nearly $22 billion contract to\u00a0supply U.S. Army combat troops<\/a>\u00a0with its augmented reality headsets.<\/p>\n

Microsoft and the Army\u00a0separately announced the deal<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The technology<\/a> is based on Microsoft\u2019s HoloLens headsets, which were originally intended for the video game<\/a> and entertainment industries.<\/p>\n

Pentagon officials have described the futuristic technology \u2014 which the Army calls its Integrated Visual Augmentation System \u2014 as a way of boosting soldiers\u2019 awareness of their surroundings and their ability to spot targets and dangers.<\/p>\n

Microsoft\u2019s head-mounted HoloLens displays let people see virtual imagery superimposed over the physical world in front of them \u2014 anything from holograms in virtual game worlds to repair instructions floating over a broken gadget.<\/p>\n

The Army\u2019s website says soldiers tested the gadgets last year at Fort Pickett in Virginia. It said the system could help troops gain an advantage \u201con battlefields that are increasingly urban, congested, dark and unpredictable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Army first began testing Microsoft\u2019s system with a $480 million contract in 2018 and said the headsets could be used for both training and in actual battle. The new contract will enable Microsoft to mass produce units for more than 120,000 soldiers in the Army Close Combat Force. Microsoft said the contract will amount to up to $21.88 billion over the next decade, with a five-year base agreement that can be extended for another five years.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear how it corresponds to the $740 billion defense policy bill that Congress passed in January after overriding a veto by President Donald Trump. The bill affirmed a 3 percent pay raise for US troops but included cuts to the headset initiative.<\/p>\n

Sen. Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat who leads the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Wednesday that the technology is promising but its results must be closely tracked \u201cand it\u2019s our job to raise issues if the technology isn\u2019t meeting the needs of our troops now and in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Microsoft President Brad Smith told Reed\u2019s committee in February that the system could integrate thermal night vision and facial recognition to provide soldiers with \u201creal-time analytics\u201d on remote battlefields. He also described how it could help in planning a hostage rescue operation by creating a \u201cdigital twin\u201d of the building.<\/p>\n

A group of Microsoft workers in 2019 petitioned the company to cancel its initial Army deal, arguing it would turn real-world battlefields into a video game.<\/p>\n

Microsoft is among several tech companies that have sought to wow the gaming world with glitzy new virtual reality goggles over the past decade, though the efforts have largely fizzled. Microsoft pivoted away from consumer app<\/a>lications for its second-generation HoloLens 2, introduced in 2019, which is the basis for the Army\u2019s new gadgets.<\/p>\n

Although Microsoft recently demonstrated a way to use the goggles to play the hit game Pokemon Go, it mostly pitches the devices as work tools to help surgeons, factory crews and others. Users can often control what\u2019s on their screens using hand gestures or voice commands.<\/p>\n

The headset deal is part of Microsoft\u2019s broader work as a defense contractor. The Pentagon in September reaffirmed Microsoft as winner of a cloud computing contract potentially worth $10 billion, although the work has been delayed by a legal battle over rival Amazon\u2019s claim that the bidding process was flawed.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Microsoft wins $22 billion deal to make AR headsets for US Army” Microsoft won a nearly $22 billion contract to\u00a0supply U.S. Army combat troops\u00a0with its augmented reality headsets. Microsoft and the Army\u00a0separately announced the deal\u00a0Wednesday. The technology is based on Microsoft\u2019s HoloLens headsets, which were originally intended for the video game and entertainment industries. Pentagon…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/microsoft-wins-22B-armycontract.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[100353,71173,59198,75699,70286,100428],"class_list":["post-216711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4-1-21","tag-army","tag-augmented-reality","tag-contracts","tag-microsoft","tag-military-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}