Microsoft Poised To Deliver Improved Combat Goggles, US Army Says (bloomberg.com) 30
Microsoft is on track to deliver an improved version of its combat goggles by July 31 for intensive soldier testing that will help the US Army decide whether to deploy the devices by 2025 or cancel the troubled program, according to the service. From a report: After delivery, the first 20 prototype IVAS 1.2 goggles will be assessed by two squads of solders in late August to check for improvements in reliability, low-light performance and how well they fit soldiers without repeats of the nausea and dizziness that halted the deployment of earlier versions. Microsoft said in a statement that the deliveries will be three months ahead of schedule.
"This initial assessment measures system performance to ensure engineering efforts are on schedule and meeting design objectives," the Army said. A decision to deploy the military version would unlock billions of dollars for procurement that Congress has become unwilling to free up pending improvements to the device, which is based on the company's HoloLens "mixed reality" goggles.
"This initial assessment measures system performance to ensure engineering efforts are on schedule and meeting design objectives," the Army said. A decision to deploy the military version would unlock billions of dollars for procurement that Congress has become unwilling to free up pending improvements to the device, which is based on the company's HoloLens "mixed reality" goggles.
Flash image of soldiers stumbling around (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Flash image of soldiers stumbling around (Score:5, Funny)
Giving new meaning to BSOD
and Patch Tuesday is an no war day! (Score:3)
and Patch Tuesday is an no war day!
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No these are combat goggles. They come with the all new red screen of death.
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Um, Windows for Warships?
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The goggles, they do nothing!
As long as not made by the Clippy department ... (Score:3)
"It looks as if you are about to be shot by an enemy soldier ... do you want to point your rifle at him ?". How to lose a war quickly.
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Clippy the aimbot ... shudder
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* Call in fire on your own position.
* Send the wrong grid square
* Find the co-ordinates of the nearest allied unit
Better alternative, but same issues. (Score:2)
combat goggles ... repeats of the nausea and dizziness
Beer goggles?
Pro Tip: Don't confuse your beer goggles for combat goggles, or vise-versa.
A long way to go (Score:2)
A long way to a usable version, 3.1
Give Ukraine a few sets (Score:2)
If they're interested of course.
Aside from defending a friendly nation against conquest and genocide, one of the big advantaged to the US is the ability to show off it's military hardware as well as to test it against a not-quite modern adversary (turns out having a bunch of tanks and APCs doesn't let you simply drive through a well defended mine field).
If the US wants to understand if these goggles are actually ready for real combat give Ukraine some pairs. You're going to get a lot better data than a coup
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Ukraine lacks the infrastructure to use these. Just trust me, their units do not have the organic bandwidth to support IVAS. And just giving them what the US uses for tactical bandwidth is infeasible as well.
Maybe, if I was Ukraine I'd probably say no, but I'd like them to have the choice.
Besides, genocide? Sounds like Putin talking about Nazis, same level of bullshit hyperbole.
Well there are definitely neo-Nazis involved... but they were fighting for the Russians [wikipedia.org], so not what Putin meant.
As for genocide I'm not referring to the widespread torture and murder of civilians (which is pretty awful) but things like the fact that Russia is trying to erase the Ukrainian language [yahoo.com] and the kidnapping of Ukrainian children to be raised by Russian families is also genocide [foreignpolicy.com].
It is true that genocide is usually a r
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The Russians think Nazis suck - so saying they are fighting on the Russian side is ludicrous.
Except Dmitry Utkin, operational commander of Wagner (hint: WAGNER [wikipedia.org]) is a pretty blatant neo-Nazi.
Russians aren't opposed to fascism, just fascism that opposes them.
The whole Putin propaganda thrust is that the Ukrainians are Nazis. Lots of pics of unit emblems and flags with swastikas on them on the Ukrainian side.
There was historically a bit of Nazi support in Ukraine since they were enemies of the Soviets, but I suspect a lot of those pics your seeing are Russian disinformation.
The Russians use it to claim there is no such thing as a Ukrainian and the Ukrainians claim it means genocide is going on.
And trying to wipe out the language?
Whatever...both of you can go fuck yourselves.
The Russians are going to win, and the Ukrainians are killing themselves off at the West's behest. These are just facts. Its hard to pick sides since both sides are so shitty, but i'm going to have some schadenfreude when the Ukraine loses because of all my taxpayer money that was wasted on this VERY bad cause. The majority of my countrymen are coming around to agreeing.
Funny how you claim to be impartial, yet you're obviously cheering for the Russians and ignoring the inconvenient existence of their blatantly
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"Genocide: the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group."
Putin and his Admin have all literally said they want to wipe out all Ukrainian culture/history. Already put civilians into camps to forcibly learn Russian culture/language.
So not hyperbole. The only difference is Russia's numbers are still in the thousands, and not millions yet.
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It'd be faster to just give them directly to Russia. Considering that these goggles are made by Microsoft, if enough are delivered the war will be over immediately.
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I thought we're friends with Ukraine.
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That would be a truly stupid idea.
These HMDs were rejected by the US army for various reasons and general unusability This new batch of 20(!) units will have to go through testing to see if they are even baseline usable. They are nowhere near being quality enough to deploy.
No internet, activation failed. (Score:2)
Oh, the jokes write themselves (Score:3)
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Don't forget the weather widget so they can force Edge to run on it.
Oh great. (Score:1)
Imagine this crashing, wholesale in combat
Well (Score:2)
What could possibly go wrong?