EagleEye, an AI-powered mixed-reality (MR) system designed to be built into soldiers’ helmets.
The modular hardware is a “family of systems,” according to Anduril’s announcement, including a heads-up display, spatial audio, and radio frequency detection. It can display mission briefings and orders, overlay maps and other information during combat, and control drones and military robotics.
“We don’t want to give service members a new tool—we’re giving them a new teammate,” says Luckey. “The idea of an AI partner embedded in your display has been imagined for decades. EagleEye is the first time it’s real.”
I support this move of giving every US Soldier a radio-device on their heads that needs constant connection to a remote server. I am sure there is no way AT ALL for a crafty enemy of imperialism to exploit this one.
I say it needs this because I highly doubt their plan is to make every soldier carry around a computation device powerful enough to real time analyze video footage. If that is the plan, I also support that, because it will be a waste of billions of dollars either way.
Oh no, I fell in some mud and now my helmet doesn’t work
If it can put a little map in the corner of your vision with little red markers for gunfire sounds the warzone will feel like call of doody.
If it can visualise local sounds and then map them to locations in your 3d vision in realtime like a sort of Batman xray vision using sound cues then it’ll be genuinely powerful and dangerous in close combat scenarios. A full squad of microphones receiving a sound noise from different microphone locations should be able to map that information pretty accurately. A footstep or shuffle could be visualised and located in 3d space through multiple floors or walls, a squad using this technology will be genuinely scary when this tech matures. This is not techbro nonsense there’s tonnes of applications here that would improve a squad without presenting overwhelming information.
These things probably have terrible battery life, like 3h max. Especially if they’re running all this complex analysis and spatial rendering locally. I wonder how many extra battery packs they’ll have to carry around and charge all the time.
They’ll probably just tell them to stuff an APC battery backup power strip in their pack for longevity. I’m sure those things will behave nicely when hit with live ammunition.
They’ll bring in Elon Musk next, don’t worry! He’ll share his extensive insider knowledge about how he personally designed the ᛋᛋyberTruKKK all by himself (what a genius!) to withstand anything you can throw at it! Did you know it can also briefly serve as a boat for a short amount of time? How wonderful!
Lithium is well known to be extremely stable
That’s 3 hours of time I would not want to be fighting the dudes that can see me through walls
Knowledge is power comrade.
Thinking of other applications here - Imagine you raise the rifle to your eye line and it displays a curved bullet line including the bullet drop over distance within your vision. Forget the need for manual optics, you just get hyper accurate predictions of the bullet travel path instead. Better than a laser sight because it projects an expected curve instead of a straight line.
Ammo indicator, tells you what’s in your magazine just like a videogame.
Seems like a lot of expense and excess weight to replace a laser sight, knowing how a gun works, and looking at the side of your mag. Idk what the benefit if making it like a video game is, other than making a bunch of money selling gadgets to the military.
I’m not saying these things are useless entirely, but externalizing basic skills seems like a good way to make your soldiers lazy and ineffective. Especially since computers can easily be subverted by hacking, dirty sensors, or just being out of alignment. Obviously imperial soldiers are trending towards lazy and incompetent so it makes some sense to wrap them in gear that mimics competency.
Idk what the benefit if making it like a video game is, other than making a bunch of money selling gadgets to the military.
It makes non-standard firing positions viable. Right now you must hold a gun in a certain way, to your should, eyesight trained down barrel in order to fire accurately. You can’t hipfire that thing and have it go anywhere with any accuracy, you can’t hold your gun around a corner and have it go anywhere accurately. You can’t hold it cack-handed through a peep hole and have it go anywhere accurately. All of these firing positions become viable with an accuracy line instead of a laser sight.
The laser sight is only useful in close quarters. I’m not talking about that. The laser sight is detrimental to accuracy at 300m+ because it’s not going to be where the bullets are going to land, unless you’ve zeroed it for that range which nobody is going to do because that’s not the intended use of them.
Sights have to be altered before going into the field with guesswork as to what the expected engagement range will be, if they want close quarters then they’re going to use sights for close quarters, if they want longer ranges then they’re going to want sights for longer ranges. A hud like this completely removes that element, the gun will be accurate at close range, it will be accurate at long range, it will be MUCH more accurate at longer ranges than usual because of the guide line too. Let’s not forget the entire hud could function as a toggleable zoom too. Let’s face it, not all troops are sharpshooters because not all troops are very good at estimating bullet drop at range, you give them a guide line though and their accuracy will greatly improve at those ranges.
Is it externalising skills? Yeah sure. It is. But not all these troops have all these skills in the first place. The tech will significantly improve the bad soldiers more than it harms the skill of the good ones. You’re giving them wallhacks and aim assist.
Do we actually know that any of this is working in real life?
Robot dogs to carry the extra batteries
But who will carry the dog’s battery???
Robot cats
I know Lord of the Rings isn’t without its problematic elements. But still, it’s a book beloved by millions (including me) with an overall wholesome and uplifting story. The fact that Anduril and Palantir are able to use objects from the book and do the worst possible shit under their names makes me want to ✍️ them just for that alone, before we get to all their other crimes.
The Tolkien estate is loaded, I wish they would go after them. Even if Palantir and Anduril aren’t trademarked, I would think that either in US or UK courts, they could argue these companies are so evil and against everything JRR believed in, that associating them with his works is actively, financially harmful.
Palantir should’ve at the very least been called Sauron.
lmao a home security system named after a guy who famously got got due to his poor home security, genius
The protests within nixos was over this company’s involvement.
Deterministic, replicatable, atomic warcrimes
We’ve had atomic warcrimes since the 40s.
Now you can have them containerized in a declarative package manager!
They saw the game Haze and that one episode of Black Mirror and started developing the warcrime-obscuring reality bending tech.
woke army putting cat ears on their helmetsGiving all the facebook chatbots PTSD by training them on live helmet camera footage of war crimes
“wot if your da was a smartphone” as it may be, I’m suggesting we lift Charlie Brooker into the pantheon of incredibly confused auteurs with prophetic vision alongside George Lucas and Hideo Kojima. My man has earned it
