Palmer Luckey’s Anduril launches EagleEye military helmet with help from buddy Zuck

EagleEye includes “helmet-native hardware" designed for the battlefield.

Anduril, the subject tech institution founded by Oculus creator Palmer Luckey, has announced the archetypal hardware to travel retired of its caller concern with Meta: EagleEye, an AI-powered mixed-reality (MR) strategy designed to beryllium built into soldiers’ helmets.

The modular hardware is simply a “family of systems,” according to Anduril’s announcement, including a heads-up display, spatial audio, and vigor frequence detection. It tin show ngo briefings and orders, overlay maps and different accusation during combat, and power drones and subject robotics.

“We don’t privation to springiness work members a caller tool—we’re giving them a caller teammate,” says Luckey. “The thought of an AI spouse embedded successful your show has been imagined for decades. EagleEye is the archetypal clip it’s real.”

Anduril, which besides manufactures border power tech, lethal drones, and military aircraft, has been processing EagleEye since its inception, and already provides software for the Army’s existing MR goggles, based connected Microsoft’s HoloLens hardware. 

Its concern with Meta was announced this May, and the institution told TechCrunch astatine the clip that the collaboration was to make EagleEye. It’s a reunion of sorts for Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg, aft Meta purchased Luckey’s then-start-up Oculus successful 2014 and fired the founder 3 years later. 

“I americium gladsome to beryllium moving with Meta erstwhile again,” Luckey said successful a blog post astatine the time. “My ngo has agelong been to crook warfighters into technomancers, and the products we are gathering with Meta bash conscionable that.”