Microsoft wins US Army contract

[Eldorado]

Microsoft wins U.S. Army contract for augmented reality headsets, worth up to $21.9 billion over 10 years

• Microsoft will deliver to the U.S. Army more than 120,000 devices based on its HoloLens augmented reality headset.
• The deal, which could be worth as much as $21.88 billion over 10 years, follows a contract Microsoft received to build prototype headsets for the Army.
• The contract comes a year and a half after Microsoft won a cloud contract from the Pentagon that could be worth up to $10 billion.

Full report at CNBC

 

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[Buzz_Light_Year]

I wonder if they'll call it BSOD.

[Trelane]

Shocked, shocked I say.

Seriously though, they were the first to have a secure cloud network available that had solid encryption that kept things running during the pandemic.

[+and-then]

I've heard of augmented reality but I've never seen an example of it in any device I own.  If I understand the concept, the heads up display identifies objects, locations and such in real time?  Considering the youth going in the military now, it's probably a good idea to make it as simple as possible.  After all, they have important training in wokeness...