Microsoft scores $21.88 billion AI headset contract
 

Making augmented reality headsets for the US army

Software king of the world Microsoft has won a contract to sell the US Army augmented reality headsets based on its HoloLens product and backed by Azure cloud computing services.

The contract could be worth up to $21.88 billion over ten years.

Over the past two years, Microsoft has worked with the Army on the prototyping phase of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System or IVAS. The company that the Army had moved into the production phase of the project.

Writing in the company bog, Microsoft Technical Fellow Alex Kipman said the headsets delivered "enhanced situational awareness, enabling information sharing and decision-making "in a variety of scenarios".

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