Palmer Luckey’s defense company Anduril interested in AR/VR on the battlefield

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Luckey is going to have to grow up to survive in this space.

What do you mean?

He tends to behave like your average 4Chan user rather than a higher-up in a defense contractor. I think he's going to learn that dealing with people in the defense industry is a lot different than appealing to your average video game obsessed teenager.

With this being mostly Palantir + Luckey, I can see them reigning him in a bit more than Facebook did.

He's worth hundreds of millions and is in his 20s. I hope he doesn't change at all because he has no reason to.

I wonder if some type of 360 camera on humvees could be trained to detect incoming fire and display the direction/location to soldiers on the ground?

I'm unsure if these types of systems exist, but after watching Restrepo it seems like figuring out where the enemy is located was half the battle. In a combat situation with incoming fire, having a CV system tracking incoming rounds and combatants might be useful.

Trophy has a version for LVs that’s can do that so can some other APSs.

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