Palmer Luckey's Anduril Launches EagleEye Military Helmet

Palmer Luckey's defense tech firm Anduril has unveiled EagleEye, an AI-powered mixed-reality combat helmet built in partnership with Meta. The system integrates AR displays, spatial audio, and drone control to create what Luckey calls "a new teammate" for soldiers. "The idea of an AI partner embedded in your display has been imagined for decades. EagleEye is the first time it's real," said Luckey. The Verge reports: Anduril, which also manufactures border control tech, lethal drones, and military aircraft, has been developing EagleEye since its inception, and already provides software for the Army's existing MR goggles, based on Microsoft's HoloLens hardware. Its partnership with Meta was announced this May, and the company told TechCrunch at the time that the collaboration was to develop EagleEye. It's a reunion of sorts for Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg, after Meta purchased Luckey's then-start-up Oculus in 2014 and fired the founder three years later.

maybe it tell the Soldiers what to do to save USA

[Joe_Dragon]

maybe it tell the Soldiers what to do to save USA right out that movie

Re:maybe it tell the Soldiers what to do to save U

[sg_oneill]

tbh if all it did was chant "Remember your vows. defend the constitutioon" over and over again, that might end up being useful.

Not that I trust palmer or Thiel to give a shit about the constitution , with their authoritarian surveilance fantasies and all.

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[ArchieBunker]

I used to feel bad for Gawker outing Peter Thiel while he was in the middle east. Not anymore.

Re:maybe it tell the Soldiers what to do to save U

[fahrbot-bot]

tbh if all it did was chant "Remember your vows. defend the constitution" over and over again, that might end up being useful.

I'd settle for members of Congress getting that message: Oath to The Constitution, Responsibilities of Congress, Checks and Balances, ... -- you know, all the stuff we (should have) learned in high school government class.

For SCOTUS, I'd add: Don't pull and misapply stuff from 400 years ago to invent justifications for your agendas. If you're an Originalist or Textualist, then be that more than just when it's convenient.

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[XO]

Maybe I missed something, but it seems weird as fuck for Palmer, the guy who created a suicide device for fucks sake, to be sucking the cocks of the military industry.

Re: maybe it tell the Soldiers what to do to save

[ThurstonMoore]

Why does that seem weird? The guy comes across as your typical psychopath tech bro to me.

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[nightflameauto]

Maybe I missed something, but it seems weird as fuck for Palmer, the guy who created a suicide device for fucks sake, to be sucking the cocks of the military industry.

Does it? When people get wrapped up in the pursuit of money above all else, sooner or later they're gonna start eye-fucking the military. That's one avenue of enrichment that seems to always have a near endless supply of financing, and very little scrutiny over how that financing is spread around.

The movie practically writes itself

[gurps_npc]

AI powered virtual reality combat helmet:

Is the AI Hallucinating? Is the invasion real, or is it all virtual lies?

Wait, is it on purpose? Are human soldiers killing all the women because the AI is trying to wipe us all out?

TWIST. The AI is innocent - it's just been hacked by...

1) Russia
2) China
3) CANADA????

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[postbigbang]

No, hacked by Jimmy Smith, age 14, of Colorado, who is interested in shoot-em-up war games with realism. His dad's machine was connected through Comcast to his bot at the local library. /sarcasm

In reality, I hope this is just a pilot. And there are overrides. And it doesn't come with an included shock collar.

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[edi_guy]

It does write itself.

Soldier in trench on the frontlines in Eastern Poland. Incoming artillery rounds thud closer and closer. The an alarm for an incoming drown swarm headed for his sector. He quickly begins to configure countermeasures, and ....

A "Hey soldier, would you like to meet women over 40 in your area?" ad pops up. Unable to find the close pop-up X in time he perishes.

BTW so nice that there is continuity in the graft of DOD procurement. Different names, but the scam still remains the same.

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[Joe_Dragon]

Now loading global-thermonuclear-war
Which side do you want?

1. Russia
2. China
3. USA
4. United Kingdom
5. France
6. India
7. Pakistan
8. Israel
9. North Korea

how many more times

[Anonymous Coward]

can we get Tolkien to spin in his grave by naming fascist defense contractors after his linguistic creations

Whats with all these Lotr names for companies

[SlashDotCanSuckMy777]

All these companies can just use IP from his books?

Re: Whats with all these Lotr names for companies

[Big Hairy Gorilla]

Gandalf was a Canadian company doing taxi dispatch systems circa 1980. When I worked at Mitel around same time, the systems people named all the internal nodes after LOTR characters. Geeks love LOTR?

"Dog is dog, dog!"

[BrendaEM]

Quarlo from Outer Limit's, the person who was raised by he state to be a soldier and only ever a soldier, wore such a helmet.
pedia.org/wiki/Soldier_(The_Outer_Limits)

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[Woeful Countenance]

Spoiler: Black Mirror episode [wikipedia.org] in which soldiers have neural implants providing augmented reality. Or, rather, altered reality.

Reason Zuck fired Palmer Luckey :o

[Mirnotoriety]

> It's a reunion of sorts for Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg, after Meta purchased Luckey's then-start-up Oculus in 2014 and fired the founder three years later.

“When testifying before Congress about data privacy earlier this year, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg denied the departure had anything to do with politics.

Internal Facebook emails suggest the matter was discussed at the highest levels of the company. In the fall of 2016, as unhappiness over the donation simmered, Facebook executives including Mr. Zuckerberg pressured Mr. Luckey to publicly voice support for libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, despite Mr. Luckey’s yearslong support of Mr. Trump

Mr. Luckey, it turns out, was put on leave, then fired, according to people familiar with the matter. More recently, he has told people the reason was his support for Donald Trump and the furor that his political beliefs sparked within Facebook and Silicon Valley, some of those people say.”
--

Later on Zuck would have fortnightly meetings with the FBI and hand over peoples private msgs to them.

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[q4Fry]

Can you provide the source of your quote?

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[Mirnotoriety]

Facebook reportedly fired Palmer Luckey for political views [cnet.com]

Why Did Facebook Fire a Top Executive? Hint: It Had Something to Do With Trump [wsj.com]

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[q4Fry]

Thank you.

Nope

[whitroth]

Augmented or enhanced reality - letting you see and hear more, for example,sure. But this? Right, what next, will it show ads while in a firefight?

Instant reaction: the grunts in 'Nam, when they were first issued M-16's, HATED THEM passionately. The idiots had designed them to really close tolerance... which did not work in mud, dust, and monsoon.

Oh, yes, then there's the other story on this page, about the software quality collapse...