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Anduril is working with Meta “to design, build, and field a range of integrated extended reality (XR) products that provide warfighters with enhanced perception and enable intuitive control of autonomous platforms on the battlefield,” according to a company blog post published Thursday. Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of Anduril, also co-founded Oculus VR, the gaming headset company he sold to Meta in 2014.
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At least one of those products will be a “sci-fi-style military helmet” named “Eagle Eye,” according to Core Memory, an independent publication run by journalist Ashlee Vance.
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“It’s the thing that everyone’s always wanted,” Luckey told Vance in an interview. “People have called them different things: They’ve called them Call of Duty googles. They’ve called it, you know, the helmet from Halo.”
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“These are old ideas that have only recently become really technologically viable.”
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In November, Meta changed its “acceptable use” policies so that its large language AI models could be used by U.S. military contractors, including Lockheed Martin Corp., Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. and Palantir Technologies Inc. A spokesperson for Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The partnership involves a surprising reunion between Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and Luckey, who has said he was ousted from Meta after controversy around financing a group creating anti-Hillary Clinton memes ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Zuckerberg’s politics in recent years have trended rightward.
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