We heard earlier this week that Microsoft received a contract to ship as much as 120,000 military-adapted HoloLens augmented actuality headsets value as a lot as $21.88 billion over 10 years following a profitable $480 million trial of the IVAS Integrated Visual Augmented System HoloLens 2 prototype.
Now UploadVR has some extra details about each the IVAS program and the brand new upgraded IVAS headset.
While the trial should have been profitable, UploadVR says it did reveal some points, such because the {hardware} not being rugged sufficient for army use, and issues with the sensors at night time.
The upgraded unit (pictured) is now considerably extra rugged and has many extra sensors.
The new IVAS reportedly has one main improve over the common HoloLens 2 – a a lot wider subject of view.
According to UploadVR the brand new IVAS may have a ground-breaking 80-degree x 40-degree subject of view, a lot bigger than the tiny 43-degree x 29-degree view of the HoloLens 2.
The military hopes the brand new headset could make all of the sci-fi fantasies of future troopers come true, together with:
overlaying icons on pleasant items, goals, threats, and factors of interestbuilt-in night time imaginative and prescient & thermal view modeslive picture-in-picture feeds from drones, together with the Soldier Borne Sensors (SBS) private dronesimulated weapons & enemies for coaching exercisesscanning close by folks for top temperature (COVID-19)facial recognition for hostage rescue situationsIntegration with car cameras, so these inside a troop provider will be capable to see via the armoured partitions and see what’s ready for them exterior a car earlier than they get out.
While a greater than $20 billion worth for the contract has been mooted by Microsoft, UploadVR notes that that is the utmost worth of the contract, and the variety of headsets ordered will in the end rely on additional trials and future budgets.
