{"id":75884,"date":"2025-10-13T15:09:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/75884\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T15:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:09:05","slug":"i-have-got-this-s-figured-out-anduril-unveiling-eagleeye-mixed-reality-device-at-ausa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/75884\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I have got this s- figured out\u2019: Anduril unveiling EagleEye mixed-reality device at AUSA\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSA 2025 \u2014 Anduril is unveiling EagleEye \u2014 its new line of mixed-reality, heads-up displays \u2014 in Washington this week, as it works to secure a production deal with the Army for its follow on Integrated Visual Augmentation System<\/a> (IVAS) program.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI have got this shit figured out. \u2026 I\u2019ve done this before. I\u2019ve done it more or less perfectly,\u201d Anduril founder Palmer Luckey told reporters last week when asked how EagleEye will mitigate past concerns about instances of cyber sickness<\/a> among soldiers using the Army\u2019s prior IVAS prototypes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIts very clear that we are going to have to \u2026 save the day on this,\u201d he said separately. \u201cAnd I\u2019m very happy that it seems to all be panning out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luckey has been teasing EagleEye<\/a> for quite some time and has now snagged one of two development contracts with the Army. The company, he explained, is actually working on four EagleEye variants, all in various stages of development. That includes an 80g (2.8 oz) Oakley standard issue glasses design, as well as a ballistic, full-face shield option that is being designed in-house.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two such EagleEye variants will be on display for the first time this week at the Association of the US Army\u2019s annual conference, along with a new company product line \u2014 body armor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEagleEye is less one product, and it\u2019s more a platform that other people can build products on top of,\u201d he said, explaining that the lighter glasses could be used by soldiers working in logistics roles, while the full-face shield could be better suited for soldiers on the frontlines.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe full-face ballistic shield fully encapsulates your head to protect primarily [from] blast force,\u201d Luckey said. \u201cNow, that\u2019s a much wider field display. It\u2019s over 200-degrees wide and over 100-degrees tall. It\u2019s a very different display system that\u2019s more like a night vision pass through system. It\u2019s not optically transparent. It\u2019s a full reprojection system.\u201d<\/p>\n

While initial EagleEye prototypes for the Army will use the existing Integrated Head Protection System helmet, Luckey said that helmet is not ideal for a mixed-reality heads-up display, in part because they are designed to have rotational slip to help protect soldiers\u2019 heads. That rotational slip is a challenge when it comes to keeping the device in place, so the company is working on a new helmet design.<\/p>\n

A new ballistic plate is also being designed to protect a soldier\u2019s chest and lighten the load when the EagleEye computer, battery and radio are added in.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do is integrate those all into one piece that is lighter, lower profile than all those things combined,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not \u2026 the highest performing battery in the world, nor is the highest performing armor in the world,\u201d he added. \u201cHowever, it\u2019s still much higher performance when you use it to do both of those things than if you were to do them completely separately.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plotting The Course\u00a0<\/p>\n

Luckey has been eyeing his entrance into IVAS\/Soldier-Borne Mission Command (SBMC) space for years. After rising to prominence with the development of the civilian Oculus augmented reality headset, he eventually sold that company and device to Facebook (now Meta) in 2014 and had well-documented political fallouts with people inside the company, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n

As Luckey set out to stand up Anduril around 2017, he reached out to investors pitching the design of tactical augmented reality displays.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy investors at the time told me that \u2026 I could not put all of our cards or our eggs in that basket because they believed that it was an extension of a pissing contest I had with Mark Zuckerberg as to how to build the best augmented reality glasses. They were somewhat right,\u201d Luckey said.<\/p>\n

Around this time, the Army ramped up its search for a virtual reality heads up display that soldiers could use for training and in combat, including under the cover of darkness. In 2018, it picked Microsoft\u2019s commercially available HoloLens 2 heads-up display for the IVAS program and eventually awarded the company a 10-year, $22 billion production deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However,\u00a0the device was plagued with problems that ranged from soldiers complaining of cyber sickness symptoms like nausea and visual discomfort to software glitches. After several fits and starts, and redesigns, the service moved ahead with a plan to recompete the hardware earlier this year and officially asked <\/a>industry to submit viable options for the SBMC competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Luckey said last week that he had been preparing for this moment \u2014 working on EagleEye for two-and-a-half years, and already integrating Anduril\u2019s Lattice platform<\/a> into the Microsoft-designed device.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then in April, with a competition on the horizon, Anduril officially assumed oversight<\/a> of the original multi-billion-dollar IVAS production deal, which is expected to home in on the data architecture.<\/p>\n

Luckey, around that time, also made a play to claw back all the intellectual property from Meta and struck up a partnership between the two companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI now have all my toys back,\u201d he said. \u201cSo everything that I did before I sold the company, everything I did while I was at Meta, and everything that they did afterwards.\u00a0 All of it is on the table for EagleEye.\u201d<\/p>\n

In September<\/a>, the Army tapped Anduril and the startup firm Rivet to proceed with the IVAS redo for the hardware component of the system.<\/p>\n

Based on photos on its website, Rivet\u2019s design closely resembles glasses. At the time of the contract award, Rivet CEO David Marra said his company signed a $195 million contract with the Army that will cover an 18-month rapid prototyping sprint. Those dollars, he said, will be used to continue engineering and testing work, and the production of 470 \u201cproduction representative\u201d devices.<\/p>\n

Anduril, meanwhile, said it received a $159 million contract for initial prototyping, with plans to begin delivering close to 100 units in the April-June 2026 timeframe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSA 2025 \u2014 Anduril is unveiling EagleEye \u2014 its new line of mixed-reality, heads-up displays \u2014 in Washington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[7703,8227,59312,59313,20478,59314,59315,59316,897,898,609,12261,111,139,69,12920,59317,145,360,361,362],"class_list":{"0":"post-75884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-anduril","9":"tag-army","10":"tag-ausa-2025","11":"tag-business-industry","12":"tag-cyber-security","13":"tag-eagleeye","14":"tag-ivas","15":"tag-lattice","16":"tag-mark-zuckerberg","17":"tag-meta","18":"tag-microsoft","19":"tag-networks","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-palmer-luckey","24":"tag-soldier-borne-mission-command-sbmc","25":"tag-technology","26":"tag-virtual-reality","27":"tag-virtualreality","28":"tag-vr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}