In November, we learned that Microsoft won a $479 million contract to supply the US Army with a version of its HoloLens augmented reality headset — a move that Microsoft’s own employees decried this February, prompting Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella himself to respond.
Now, for the first time, we’re seeing what those hundreds of millions of dollars actually bought.
CNBC got an exclusive look at the so-called Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), which turns out to be a modified version of the new HoloLens 2. Physically, it looks almost identical — save the new FLIR thermal camera prominently mounted above the user’s forehead.
But it’s what’s inside the glasses that counts, and CNBC reports that this prototype of the future of…
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