Palmer Luckey aims to turn American soldiers into Starship Troopers.

Anduril Industries, a military technology company started by Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey, is working with Microsoft to improve the mixed reality headset used by the U.S. Army. Project presented by Anduril Lattice software will be embedded into the Integrated Vision Augmentation System (IVAS), which will update soldiers with real-time information from drones, ground vehicles and air defense systems through HoloLens-based goggles.

IVAS and Lattice integration could alert the wearer to incoming threats detected by air defense systems, for example, even when they are out of sight. “The idea is to empower the soldier.” Luckey said in an interview: mad, “Their visual perception, their auditory perception, is basically to give them all the vision that Superman has, plus more, and to make them more lethal.”

Luckey compared the IVAS project to the infantry headsets featured in Robert Heinlein’s work in the 1950s. Starship Troopers Novel, story mad The headset is “already being completed, just as science fiction writers envisioned it,” he said.

The first IVAS headset, developed by Microsoft in 2021, combined integrated thermal and night vision imaging sensors with a heads-up display, but was reported to cause headaches, nausea, and eye fatigue during testing. Microsoft improved the design last year to address these issues, mad The IVAS platform will undergo “further refinement” after additional testing in early 2025, the Army previously said. Up to $21.9 billion over 10 years IVAS Project Contract.