Five Navy Ships Now Outfitted with Augmented Reality Maintenance Tech

Five Navy ships now outfitted with augmented reality maintenance tech

Five U.S. Navy ships now have working Augmented Reality Maintenance Systems that allow technicians to remotely troubleshoot problems from a sailor’s point of view. Within less than a week, the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division installed the systems, also known as ARMS, on the aircraft carrier Nimitz and the guided missile destroyers Curtis Wilbur, Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, Gridley and Fitzgerald. The new systems are designed to c…

Mark Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey end their beef and partner to build extended reality tech for the US military

Palmer Luckey (left) and Mark Zuckerberg (right)AndurilMark Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey's beef ends as Meta and Anduril partner on a US military project.The two companies will share resources to build wearable tools for soldiers.The partnership is the latest signal of Big Tech's growing interest in the defense industry.Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey — once on warring sides of the tech culture clash — are giving new m…

'Insane radical leftists' are gone: Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey reunite for US military project

Billionaire entrepreneur Palmer Luckey says Meta is a very different company than it used to be, and he's ready to work with Mark Zuckerberg again after being fired from Facebook in 2017.Luckey, the creator of virtual reality goggles called Oculus Rift, was fired by Facebook allegedly for donating $10,000 to a pro-Donald Trump group. Almost 10 years later as founder of Anduril, a military tech company, Luckey announced on X that he was ready to …

Meta wants some of what Palantir is having

Bloomberg reports that Meta has signed a deal to develop new products with Palantir partner and defense contractor Anduril....

Anduril, Meta team up for Army IVAS recompete

"My mission has long been to turn warfighters into technomancers, and the products we are building with Meta do just that," said Anduril founder Palmer Luckey.

In a victory for Palmer Luckey, Meta and Anduril work on mixed reality headsets for the military

Anduril and Meta plan to build VR/AR extended reality headsets for the military as part of the the contract that Anduril took over from Microsoft.