Last week, Anduril announced that it is taking over the US Army’s IVAS program from Microsoft. Anduril is the defence company Luckey founded after being fired from Oculus, currently valued at $28 billion. That initial announcement didn’t come with any specific details on the hardware or capabilities of Anduril’s IVAS solution. But in an interview with former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan, Luckey revealed the first details of the system as well as its name: EagleEye. Luckey told Ryan that Anduril has been “investing a ton of resources” into the development of EagleEye for “years” now, long before it knew it could secure the IVAS contract. A defining tenet of Anduril has been to develop products in advance of offering them to the US government for a fixed price, a stark departure from the approach of legacy defense contractors, who secure contracts to develop hardware with the ability to go over budget. Unlike Microsoft’s HoloLens IVAS, Anduril’s EagleEye is an “integrated ballistic shell”, not something you strap onto existing helmets. The strap-on approach was cumbersome, Luckey explains, leading to imbalances and “snag hazard”.

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