Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft
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Hey Palmer Luckey, eat shit.
Haley Joel Osment's role on Silicon Valley parodying this dipshit really sums it up.
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Microsoft was doing the headset? Did they have clippy asking who the soldier wanted to kill that day? Maybe mid-combat blue screens to blind the user? Oh wait, a forced update while it was supposed to determine the trajectory of an incoming mortar...
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For sure. Head mounted displays are useful for, say, technical repairs. And I see the value as an alternative to the F35 helmet. But besides that … for infantry? Idk. Wishful thinking IMHO
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So this is the Land Warrior concept that keeps going?
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A friend of mine was working at a company with contracts for them when they released their first drones back in the early days.
At work, they watched the trailer for the fancy drone.
He made the joke: "At least we know what will be coming to gun us down in ten years."
That joke went down like a brick with his coworkers. No one else seemed to understand the severity of what we were buidling up to
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Iirc IVAS made like 50% of soldiers nauseous to the point of throwing up. So let's shoot some more billions at this, sure
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It's made by the same kind of techbros who are angry that the "future doesn't look like the future", that got us the Cybertruck and the other recent Tesla abominations.
When artists/writers design future tech for their cyberpunk dystopia, coolness is a greater factor than usability, especially as most creators don't have much experience with product design. I just go with the "rule of cool" and aesthetics, even in cases where stuff would look obsolete by today's standards, because some powerful people in the tech industry decided everything must be touchscreens and voice commands.
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Peter Thiel is a Lotr fan
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[email protected] 's world coming to reality
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The Canucks won’t stand a chance
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Why the hell would a flashlight need firmware?
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This is pretty much the story of the entire Land Warrior program. Nobody ever expected it to be a Real Thing, it was always a pie-in-the-sky boondoggle to make a shitload of money for the MIC.
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These have been a huge failure so far. But some guy in a suit thinks it would be cool so keep spending
