Military Applications
Microsoft to Supply US Army More AR Combat Headsets Following Positive Field Test
Microsoft's HoloLens-based headset built on contract for the US Army has passed an important round of field testing by soldiers. The company is now...
Varjo Signs “multi-million dollar” Deal to Provide Headsets for Army Training Systems
Varjo, maker of high-end XR headsets, today announced that it has closed a multi-million dollar deal to supply headsets for the U.S. Army's Reconfigurable Virtual...
Headset Maker Aims to Deliver Portable & Affordable VR Combat Sim for Training Real...
Enterprise headset maker Vrgineers has developed a portable VR combat flight sim system for training pilots on a wide range of combat aircraft, including planes...
Microsoft’s Battlefield AR Headset in Jeopardy After Deep Budget Cuts
Microsoft's big defense contract that looks to supply the US Army with modified HoloLens AR headsets isn't going so well. As first reported by...
Report: Microsoft Braces for Negative Field Tests of Military HoloLens
Microsoft is supposedly gearing up to field test its HoloLens-based military AR headset, however a new report contends the company is bracing for impact, as...
Red 6 Raises $30 Million for In-flight Military AR Training Platform
Red 6, a company building an aircraft platform with augmented reality capabilities designed for military training, says it has raised a $30 million Series...
Microsoft Signs $22B Contract with US Army to Bring HoloLens 2 Tech to the...
Following a prototyping phase started in 2019, Microsoft and the United States Army have announced they are moving to a production phase of the...
Military Contractor ECS Awarded Grant to Build VR Army Medic Trainer with Advanced Haptics
Military contractor, Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS), has received a grant from the federal Small Business Innovation Research program—likely ranging from $500,000 to $1.5 million—to pilot...
HoloLens 2 Hits the Ground as the U.S. Army’s Own AR “combat multiplier”
Microsoft won a decisive $480 million defense contract with the U.S. Army late last year to bring the company's AR hardware platform to the...
Saab to Further Develop VR Rocket Launcher Simulator
Saab, a global defense and security company (and former parent company of the car manufacturer of the same name), says that it will further...
HapTech is Aiming its Electromagnetic Haptics at Military VR Training
HapTech aiming its impressive electromagnetic recoil system toward military VR training. The company recently demonstrated how their haptic tech can scale all the way...
Microsoft Wins $480M Defense Contract to Provide U.S. Army with AR Headsets
Microsoft has won a $480 million contract with the U.S. Army which is poised to outfit soldiers with 100,000 Microsoft-built AR headsets.
While the contract...
GunnAR Live Fire Test Shows How AR Can Revolutionize Decades-old Combat Procedures
The GunnAR system uses augmented reality helmets to visually relay targeting and firing commands to gunners aboard Navy vessels, replacing decades-old methods of giving...
Secretary of Defense Peers into the Future at Navy VR Research Lab
The Secretary of Defense—second only to the President in control of the US military—recently stopped by the Navy's BEMR lab to see the latest...
50 Years in VR: Tom Furness’ Journey from Making More Lethal Pilots to Non-profit...
Tom Furness has been pioneering virtual and augmented reality for the past 50 years, longer than almost anyone else in the world. He has...
