Inside Anduril and Meta’s quest to make smart glasses for warfare
Anduril and Meta are collaborating on augmented reality headsets for the military, aiming to optimize soldiers into "human weapons systems." These headsets, which include a self-funded project called EagleEye, would allow soldiers to order drone strikes using eye-tracking and voice commands. Though still years away from deployment, the technology promises to integrate various military hardware data and utilize large language models, including Google’s Gemini, for seamless communication and decision-making on the battlefield.
Anduril and Meta are developing augmented reality headsets for the military, aiming to transform soldiers into
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