Anduril and Meta's AR smart glasses for the US Army: A year into the battlefield tech contest
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James O'Donnell
Summary
Anduril and Meta have partnered to develop AI-powered augmented reality smart glasses for the US Army, as part of the military's troubled augmented-reality contest. The prototypes overlay tactical information onto soldiers' field of view — from simple compass directions to complex maps, drone tracking, and AI-driven target recognition. Soldiers can interact using natural language via large language models (including Google's Gemini, Meta's Llama, and others) to issue commands like ordering evacuations or planning routes. The article examines the progress and challenges one year into the partnership.
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· 4 pulledDepending on the situation, the glasses for either prototype will overlay certain information onto a soldier's field of view.
This might be as simple as a compass or as complex as an entire map of the area, information about where nearby drones are flying, or AI-driven recognition of a target like a truck.
The soldier would then speak to the interface in plain language—for example, to order an evacuation for someone who's been injured or to plan a route taking into account which areas are off limits.
A large language model—Anduril is in tests with Google's Gemini, Meta's Llama, and even Ant
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