On the one hand, there is a goal, the umbrella under which giants such as Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp are housed and that responds to Mark Zuckerberg. On the other we have a not -so -known participant, but with a great influence. As they would say in a popular series: perhaps you know Anduril Industries of other successes such as Barracuda (the Low Cost Cruise Missile), Bolt-M (an autonomous drone) or the popular Road Runnings (another superdron), all of them used by the United States Army, force of which Anduril is a contractor. Well now Both have joined to develop new products for the US army, including a helmet with artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual and augmented reality functions.
Anduril collaborates with a goal to “design, build and deploy a range of integrated extended reality (XR) products that provide combatants with a improved perception and allow intuitive control of autonomous platforms on the battlefield“, according to A statement of the company itself. The relationship between both companies is not new: Palmer Lukey, co -founder of Anduril, also co -founded Oculus VR, the video game glasses that sold to Meta in 2014.
“Meta ha dedicated the last decade to the development of AI and ra to make possible the computer platform of the future -Zuckerberg explained in the statement -. We are proud to collaborate with Anduril to bring these technologies to the US military that protect our interests both in the country and abroad. ”
Although all the “arsenal” is not yet known to create together, at least one of these products will be a science fiction style military helmet called Eagle Eye, Luckey said in An interview: “It’s what everyone has always wanted. Different names have been given: Call of Duty glasses, Halo helmets … They are old ideas that have only recently become technologically viable. ”
So that this collaboration is possible, Goal modified its “acceptable use” policies so that its extensive language models could be used by US military contractorssuch as Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton Holding and Palantir Technologies.
The collaboration implies a surprising meeting between the executive director of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, and Luckey, who declared to have been fired from Meta after the controversy generated by the financing of a group that created Anti-Hillary Clinton memes before the 2016 US presidential elections.
Joint mixed (augmented and virtual) reality capacities will be perfectly integrated with the Anduril Latice platform, the company’s control system and control based on AI that integrates data from thousands of sources for information on the battlefield in real time. “This integration – concludes the statement – will transform the way the combatants see, perceive and integrate the information of the battlefield ”.