Microsoft has announced that it is getting out of the Kill-O-Vision headset business, more formally known as the US Army's Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program. While the company's ...

Anduril has seized the lead on the Army’s IVAS headset program, putting the eight-year-old company in charge of one of the military’s most important soldier-enhancement programs, and poising ...

IVAS uses a variety of sensors—including night ... customers are starting to see the use cases for HoloLens and headsets that offer virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).

IVAS was initially awarded to Microsoft in 2018 to develop augmented reality headsets for soldiers based on a ruggedized version of Hololens. The initial budget for IVAS was set at $21.9 billion.

The contract is for more than 120,000 IVAS headsets, and will now move “from rapid prototyping to production and rapid fielding,” Microsoft said. The solution is “augmented by Microsoft ...

As Anduril describes it, partnering will put Anduril in charge of developing and producing the software and hardware for IVAS, which is a wearable headset with both virtual reality and augmented ...