Microsoft wants to quit building Army VR goggles, hand contract to Anduril
Published on February 13, 2025
Microsoft plans to quit developing augmented-reality headsets for the US Army and have Oculus founder Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industries take over the gig.
The software giant’s AR-for-Army project is called the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) and began in 2018 using hardware based on Microsoft's now-discontinued HoloLens headsets.
It hasn’t gone well. The Army signed a $22 billion deal with Microsoft for custom-made kit in 2021, but later that year delayed a roll-out of the headsets without providing much explanation other than to say extra time would give the Army and Microsoft the opportunity "to continue to enhance" the headsets.