Hey Palmer Luckey, eat shit.
Haley Joel Osment’s role on Silicon Valley parodying this dipshit really sums it up.
I was briefly confused how an open source flashlight firmware had anything to do with this… then I noticed this post wasn’t in the Flashlight forum. So apparently Anduril is a war contractor AND a great flashlight firmware but are not related at all.
Yeah, Anduril the company has been around for a minute (Since 2017). Luckey got in early on selling weapons tech to the government after he sold Oculus.
I just don’t like something intended for war being called Anduril. They’ve missed JRRT’s point completely.
Iirc IVAS made like 50% of soldiers nauseous to the point of throwing up. So let’s shoot some more billions at this, sure
Microsoft was doing the headset? Did they have clippy asking who the soldier wanted to kill that day? Maybe mid-combat blue screens to blind the user? Oh wait, a forced update while it was supposed to determine the trajectory of an incoming mortar…
What problem are these even designed to solve?
Wiki makes me think it’s a hammer in search of a nail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Visual_Augmentation_System
The problem it’s trying to solve is “How do we make ungodly amounts of money as ‘Defense Contractors’?”
To be genuinely fair, this sort of waste is part and parcel to the US Military.
For sure. Head mounted displays are useful for, say, technical repairs. And I see the value as an alternative to the F35 helmet. But besides that … for infantry? Idk. Wishful thinking IMHO
This is pretty much the story of the entire Land Warrior program. Nobody ever expected it to be a Real Thing, it was always a pie-in-the-sky boondoggle to make a shitload of money for the MIC.
It’s made by the same kind of techbros who are angry that the “future doesn’t look like the future”, that got us the Cybertruck and the other recent Tesla abominations.
When artists/writers design future tech for their cyberpunk dystopia, coolness is a greater factor than usability, especially as most creators don’t have much experience with product design. I just go with the “rule of cool” and aesthetics, even in cases where stuff would look obsolete by today’s standards, because some powerful people in the tech industry decided everything must be touchscreens and voice commands.
On the one hand, glad to see MS get out of this, I don’t think the tech is nearly mature enough to work on the battlefield especially on the software side. I’ve worn the v1 IVAS and developed on hololens, there are definite use cases but - full battle rattle? no. For critical applications something like this must be combat hard and it’s nowhere near ready.
eh that said anduril is fucking evil tho…
When you have a lot of money, you might try that and even succeed part of the time.
