Meta and Anduril partner to build EagleEye, a line of XR products like helmets that enhance soldiers' hearing and vision and enable control of AI weapon systems
An AI-Powered Combat Headset That Can Detect Drones Vaughn Cockayne / Washington Times : Meta, Anduril team up to bring high-tech perception to U.S. warfighters Bloomberg : Meta Teams Up With Anduril to Make AI-Powered Military Products Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Meta and Anduril defense startup partner on VR, AR project intended for U.S. Army Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Meta Partners With Anduril to Develop XR Headsets for US Military Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Meta and Anduril partner to develop wearables for the US military Maria Garcia / implicator.ai : From Facebook Outcast to Pentagon Partner: Palmer Luckey's Comeback Sam Sprigg / Auganix.org : Anduril and Meta Partner on Military XR Integration Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge : Dumb and dumberer. — Mark Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey have buried the hatchet … Jackson Chung / TechEBlog : Meta and Anduril Plan to Build the Future of Military Tech with VR and AR Shummas Humayun / Cryptopolitan : Meta and Anduril partner to build lightweight AR VR gear for soldiers Andrew Chapados / Blaze Media : ‘Insane radical leftists’ are gone: Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey reunite for US military project David Heaney / UploadVR : Palmer Luckey's Anduril Partners With Meta To Build Military XR Devices Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada : Meta, Anduril Unite to Advance XR Tech for U.S. Military Agence France-Presse : Meta, Anduril partner on battlefield tech The Economic Times : Meta joins Anduril to build XR products for US armed forces Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance : Meta working with Anduril on AR/VR military tech for soldiers Kalley Huang / The Information : Meta and Anduril Partner on VR Devices for U.S. Military Ashlee Vance / Core Memory : Exclusive: Palmer Luckey and Meta Make Peace to Make War Together Bluesky: Hagen Blix / @hagenblix : AR/VR, just like AI, exists in a zone where the military-industrial complex is never far away Romit Mehta / @romitmehta.com : Microsoft folding Hololens paves the way for the next open system? I am assuming Apple and Vision Pro were not considered for a variety of reasons - Vision Pro price point and Apple's potential reluctance to be associated with weapons systems for starters. [embedded post] @golikehellmachine.com : i worked (twice) for a company that made products which could've eventually, theoretically, evolved into something like this, and the main difference between that now-defunct company and anduril/meta is that the latter have exponentially more money to set on fire learning why it doesn't work [embedded post] Dave Lee / @davelee.me : Meta's mission statement as currently written on its website: “Meta's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.” [embedded post] Matt Cagle / @mattcagle : It used to be that surveillance tech would be developed for the military and eventually be used against consumers — Now, tech developed for consumers is being adopted by the military — Says something about consumer tech [embedded post] Jared Keller / @jaredbkeller : The IVAS Delusion, or, why a half-century of military heads-up display R&D efforts always end with soldiers bitching about how uncomfortable it is www.anduril.com/article/andu... Sean Hodgdon / @seanhodgdon.com : Meta is as bad, if not worse, than any of Elon's companies — If you left X for Bluesky but still continue to use Instagram or anything else from Meta, you have no ground to stand on [embedded post] @josefresco.com : The gift of grift heals all bad feelings. [embedded post] @hypervisible : Misogynist tech bro to arms dealer pipeline. Steve Kovach / @stevekovach : Meta gets into killer-tech (literally) — www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ar... Mastodon: Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken@mastodon.social : I wonder if Meta will eventually regret pursuing various far-flung ambitions instead of working harder to protect its social networks from becoming pits of AI slop. https://www.wsj.com/... Threads: Harry McCracken / @technologizer : I wonder if Meta will eventually regret pursuing various far-flung ambitions instead of working harder to protect its social networks from becoming pits of AI slop. https://www.wsj.com/... Parker Thompson / @parkert : The guy from Smash Mouth looks amazing for his age, and it's cool he's into tech. Andrew Bosworth / @boztank : The computing platform of the future will be built on AI and AR and American industry is once again leading the world in bringing it to life. Proud to be working with Anduril to make sure our national security continues to benefit from our technological edge. @documentingmeta : girls after an argument: never talking to her again! boys after having the worst falling out: Chris Messina / @chris : Meta becoming a literal arms dealer wasn't on my 2025 bingo card, but here we are. X: Kyla Scanlon / @kylascan : I know there is a lot to discuss here but I didn't expect Palmer to be a Hey Dude guy for some reason @eip1559 : J Cal perplexed Azad Balabanian / @azadux : Can't think of a better example of the “vibe shift” in Silicon Valley (2016 -> 2025) than this David Heaney / @heaney555 : A few weeks ago, @PalmerLuckey described Mark Zuckerberg as “the #1 VR fan in the world”. [video] David Heaney / @heaney555 : Just a few years ago, the idea of Palmer Luckey working with Meta again would have been almost unthinkable. This could be the most significant partnership in the history of XR, and among other benefits, will likely help Meta bring silicon carbide AR glasses to market sooner. @tbpn : We asked @ashleevance about his newest Core Memory episode interviewing @PalmerLuckey. “Palmer came yesterday, straight after making peace with Zuck.” “He didn't lay the blame at Zuck's feet. He felt like Zuck did what he had to do to protect the company.” “The tech details [video] Joel Kaplan / @joel_kaplan : Meta is proud to play its part in keeping America safe & prosperous. In our partnership with Anduril we'll support the US Army's training, decision-making & combat readiness. https://www.anduril.com/... Bojan Tunguz / @tunguz : Technology is healing Jen / @jendarhy : New line of sight. We're back. Phil Trubey / @ptrubey : If you aren't following Ashlee Vance, you should be. He has banger interviews of fascinating movers and shakers. Subscribe to his emails because then you'll get wonderful content like this (I edited it down, the whole email was funny): As you'll hear on the show, Luckey's Boz / @boztank : The computing platform of the future will be built on AI and AR and American industry is once again leading the world in bringing it to life. Proud to be working with Anduril to make sure our national security continues to benefit from our technological edge. Ben Goggin / @benjamingoggin : Meta's collab with Palmer Lucky, who was fired in 2017 from Facebook after pro-Trump donations, is a great illustration of Meta's zigzagging political identity through the years. Marc Andreessen / @pmarca : ❤️❤️ Boz / @boztank : @PalmerLuckey LFG @iampaulgrewal : In a career full of ridiculously talented clients, these two will always stand out for this simple country lawyer. @anduriltech : “We're proud to partner with Anduril to help bring these technologies to the American servicemembers that protect our interests at home and abroad.” - Mark Zuckerberg (@Finkd) Aaron M. Renn / @aaron_renn : People at the elite level are way more ready to resolve conflict and move on than people lower down the status hierarchy. https://www.wsj.com/... Palmer Luckey / @palmerluckey : Also, we relaunched our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/... @anduriltech : We're partnering with @Meta on a range of integrated XR products designed specifically for the warfighter. @anduriltech : “My mission has long been to turn warfighters into technomancers, and the products we are building with Meta do just that.” - @PalmerLuckey Palmer Luckey / @palmerluckey : It is pretty cool to have everything at our fingertips for this joint effort - everything I made before Meta acquired Oculus, everything we made together, and everything we did on our own after I was fired. It's time to finish the fight. Ashlee Vance / @ashleevance : Alight. Full episode with @PalmerLuckey here on X. He makes peace with Zuck. He sings. Seriously. He does. He knocks Trump on Jordan. Reveals much about @anduriltech. Subscribe to the Core Memory pod for more like this https://www.corememory.com/podcast Timestamps 00:00 - Air raid [video] Palmer Luckey / @palmerluckey : Anduril and Meta have teamed up to make the world's best AR and VR systems for the United States Military. Leveraging Meta's massive investments in XR technology for our troops will save countless lives and dollars. [image] @anduriltech : [image] Andrew Curran / @andrewcurran_ : The beef is over. [image] Ashlee Vance / @ashleevance : and here it is https://www.youtube.com/... Palmer Luckey / @palmerluckey : Big news for Anduril and the broader AR/VR community coming tomorrow morning. [image] Ashlee Vance / @ashleevance : Okay, here we go. @PalmerLuckey and @Meta have shockingly made peace (to make war). They're building sci-fi war fighter helmets together. Exclusive pod with Palmer here on the details + his firing, Trump, how to raise kids and massive @anduriltech updates https://www.youtube.com/... [image] Facebook: Palmer Freeman Luckey : Anduril and Meta have teamed up to make the world's best AR and VR systems for the United States Military. … Anduril Industries : We're partnering with Meta on a range of integrated XR products designed specifically for the warfighter. … Forums: r/Anduril : Anduril and Meta Team Up to Transform XR for the American Military r/virtualreality : Luckey and Zuck reunited for XR r/augmentedreality : Anduril and Meta Team Up to Transform XR for the American Military r/MVIS : Anduril and Meta Team Up to Transform XR for the American Military Alyaza To / Beehaw : Mark Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey end their beef and partner to build extended reality tech for the US military See also Mediagazer