Microsoft Outfits Soldiers for AR Murder With Hololens

Lucas Matney writing for Tech Crunch:

Today, Microsoft announced that it has received a contract to outfit the United States Army with tens of thousands of augmented reality headsets based on the company’s HoloLens tech. This contract could be worth as much as $21.88 billion over 10 years, the company says.

Microsoft will be fulfilling an order for 120,000 AR headsets for the Army based on their Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) design. The modified design upgrades the capabilities of the HoloLens 2 for the needs of soldiers in the field.

Microsoft has a long history of working with the government to help murder people and their GitHub unit famously contracts with ICE and helps to cage children.