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Meta and Anduril Partner to Develop EagleEye Mixed Reality System for U.S. Army

The partnership reunites Palmer Luckey with Meta, combines Reality Labs hardware with Lattice software, pursues a $100 million Army contract bid.

Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus and Anduril Industries, speaks during The Wall Street Journal's WSJ Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California on October 16, 2023. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
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Group of servicemen in VR goggles testing model of military drone in holographic program

Overview

  • Meta and Anduril announced on May 29 that they will jointly develop EagleEye, a mixed reality system for U.S. Army soldiers.
  • EagleEye will integrate hardware from Meta’s Reality Labs with Anduril’s Lattice command software and Meta’s Llama AI model to deliver real-time battlefield intelligence.
  • The partners have submitted a joint bid on an Army contract valued at up to $100 million and will continue collaboration regardless of the award outcome.
  • Anduril seized management of the Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System program from Microsoft in February to advance its soldier headset work.
  • The deal marks a reconciliation between Palmer Luckey and Meta, more than seven years after his 2017 exit from Oculus VR.