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The two companies are working together to build extended reality (XR) devices for the U.S. military, Anduril <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anduril.com\/article\/anduril-and-meta-team-up-to-transform-xr-for-the-american-military\/\" rel=\"\">announced <\/a>in a blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am glad to be working with Meta once again,\u201d Luckey is quoted as saying in the post. \u201cMy mission has long been to turn warfighters into technomancers, and the products we are building with Meta do just that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This partnership stems from the Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) Next program, formerly called the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) Next. IVAS was a massive military contract, with a total $22 billion budget, originally awarded to Microsoft in 2018 intended to develop HoloLens-like AR glasses for soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But after endless problems, in February the Army stripped <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/11\/anduril-takes-control-of-microsofts-22b-vr-military-headset-program\/\" rel=\"\">management of the program from Microsoft and awarded it to Anduril<\/a>, with Microsoft staying on as a cloud provider. The intent is to eventually have multiple suppliers of mixed reality glasses for soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of this meant that if Luckey\u2019s former employer, Meta, wanted to tap into the potentially lucrative world of military VR\/AR\/XR headsets, it would need to go through Anduril. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The devices will be based on tech out of Meta\u2019s AR\/VR research center Reality Labs, the post says. They\u2019ll use Meta\u2019s Llama AI model, and they will tap into Anduril\u2019s command and control software known as Lattice. The idea is to provide soldiers with a heads-up display of battlefield intelligence in real time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luckey is apparently feeling good about this reconciliation. He was, of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/30\/palmer-luckey-facebook\/\" rel=\"\">famously fired<\/a> from Facebook in 2017, about three years after Facebook bought his startup Oculus for $2 billion. This came after Luckey was embroiled in a brouhaha over his support for Donald Trump in his 2016 election. Luckey turned around and founded Anduril in 2017, with co-founders Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens, and Matt Grimm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Anduril spokesperson tells TechCrunch that the product family Meta and Anduril are building is even called EagleEye, which will be an ecosystem of devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EagleEye is what Luckey named Anduril\u2019s first imagined headset in Anduril\u2019s pitch deck draft, before his investors convinced him to focus on building software first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll of them had worked with me for years via Oculus VR, and when they saw the EagleEye headset in our first Anduril pitch deck draft, they pointed out that it seemed like I was sequencing things irrationally. 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