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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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
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Yeah, totally didn't understand the morality of the book and thinks sauron is a good role model
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Yep, senior Haskell developer here and I have had their recruiters hounding me many times, even though I have told them to fuck off again and again.
I always find it so funny that they chose Haskell. They are desperate to hire, but no one in the Haskell community actually wants to work for them. I'm in a discord server with a bunch of veteran Haskellers and everyone there won't touch them with a 100ft pole.
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My first thought was the reliability. Can you rely on this new tech in a life or death situation. I didn't even think of the batteries.
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Because you could design all of those feature in analog, and make custom boards for every change or have one board you update every few years based on supply, cost, and maybe power performance, but make and adjust features on a minute by minute basis if want to.
The driver, power source, etc can all be more easily separated from the logic too. It could be tiny, or massive. Same software, same controller.
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Friend/foe identification
Visualising objectives
Highlighting dangers
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Maybe… I want to read the proposal honestly
Are these things you thought of or based on something else?
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I don't know about military, but there was a number of successful applications of hololens in the industrial environment. It never went anywhere where I saw it, because the device was too expensive, too experimental, and it was impossible to purchase, but the ideas were ok.
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That's Research and Development for you.
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When you have a lot of money, you might try that and even succeed part of the time.
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It's the type of problems that can be potentially solved using AR
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That fashion started, if anyone remembers, with Google Glass. And those for me appear very nice.
But if most people won't read text on transparent background (even transparent terminal emulator windows), then trying to process information with real world in the background is harder.
Successful applications and OK ideas can sometimes be false positives, because it's, #1, safe to approve of something that won't be implemented anyway, #2, the initiative to try something often comes from superiors who only want to hear disapproval or approval of specific things about the initiative, and about the initiative itself only approval, #3, I like some things for short periods, but I wouldn't ever be able to use something like Hearthstone's UI at work.
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I might be fearing something unrealistic, but hope this at least doesn't depend on network connectivity at all times.
