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Microsoft Wins $22 Billion Deal to make VR Headsets for US Army

2Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

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Microsoft Wins $22 Billion Deal to make VR Headsets for US Army

Earlier today, the United States Army announced Microsoft won its $22 billion VR headset deal. In contract Microsoft to supply U.S. Army combat troops with its augmented reality headsets including Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program as it moves from rapid prototyping to production and rapid fielding. The IVAS headset, based on HoloLens and augmented by Microsoft Azure cloud services, delivers a platform that will keep Soldiers safer and make them more effective. The program delivers enhanced situational awareness, enabling information sharing and decision-making in a variety of scenarios. The IVAS aggregates multiple technologies into an architecture that allows the Soldier to Fight, Rehearse, and Train using a single platform. The suite of capabilities leverages ex...

Google Steps Back from Continuing the Military AI Project

The Google employees have lately discovered that the most popular multinational technology company will withdraw from a contract to assist the military in making use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to examine drone videos, followed with a disapproval by the workers. On Friday, An executive from Google's cloud team proclaimed and told the employees that the company would not attempt or desire to renew the disputable deal after it expires next year. When the company came across the fact that the military was associated with the US Department of Defence, it thrived the feeling of rebellion inside the internet titan. An internally drawn request or petition appealing for the authority of Google to remain away from the "business of war" gathered end number of signatures, however, some work...

Meet An Indian Startup Which is Famous Outside of India

There is one question, which always come to our mind whenever we use Facebook, Google and other platforms. Is there any Indian company established its footprint globally like them? Most people don't have answer of it. Why? Because due to less exposure or marketing, we are unable to find out such Indian companies. But today we are introducing one such unknown company, whom you never heard of. The Indian company based in Bengaluru silently established its footprint globally including US, UK & other countries army region. Founded by Arvind Lakshmikumar, Tonbo, a Bengaluru based advanced night vision system, which means Dragonfly in Japanese. The startup is backed by Artiman Ventures. Arvind is an alumnus of BITS Pilani and Carnegie Mellon U...