The Pentagon says Microsoft will build 120K custom HoloLens headsets for the US Army; Microsoft says the contract could be worth up to $21.88B over 10 years
AR makes a spectacle Nathan Ord / HotHardware.com News : Microsoft Inks $22 Billion Deal To Supply Modified HoloLens AR Headsets To US Army Troops Kris Graft / Gamasutra : Controversial Hololens military deal moves into production phase at $22B Kyle Melnick / VRScout : Microsoft Wins Contract To Supply US Army With 120,000 HoloLens Headsets Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Microsoft Signs $21 Billion HoloLens Deal with U.S. Military Victoria Song / Gizmodo : Microsoft Lands $22 Billion to Put Custom HoloLens Headsets on U.S. Soldiers Christopher Baugh / iPhone in Canada Blog : Microsoft Wins Government Contract to Build HoloLens Mixed Reality Headsets for US Army Joe Rice-Jones / KnowTechie : Microsoft is making custom HoloLens headsets for the Army Martin Filipov / phonearena.com : Microsoft teams up with the US Army in a $22bn deal: Is AR the future? Ibukun Ogundare / coinspeaker.com : MSFT Stock Up 1.7% as Microsoft Wins $21.9B Contract with US Army to Deliver AR Headsets Dan Grabham / Pocket-lint : Microsoft's augmented reality headsets are set to be used by the US Army Shane McGlaun / SlashGear : Microsoft HoloLens-based headset enters production for the Army James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz : Microsoft's HoloLens military contract now worth up to $22bn Isobel Asher Hamilton / Insider : Microsoft has landed a multimillion-dollar contract with the US army to make mixed-reality headsets for soldiers Mike Moore / TechRadar : Here's the HoloLens headset Microsoft is building for the US Army Alex Calvin / PC Games Insider : Microsoft lands $21.9bn HoloLens contract with US military Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal : Microsoft, U.S. Army Strike Nearly $22 Billion Headset Deal Program Executive Office Soldier : IVAS Production Contract Award Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1518: Clegg defends Facebook's algorithms, the Clubhouse party, WHO criticises China, bitcoin scam app nets $1m, and more The Verge : Microsoft is supplying 120,000 HoloLens-based headsets to the US Army Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : Microsoft gets contract worth up to $22 billion to outfit US Army with 120,000 AR headsets Alex Kipman / The Official Microsoft Blog : Army moves Microsoft HoloLens-based headset from prototyping to production phase Kareem Anderson / OnMSFT.com : Microsoft snags potential $21.88 billion U.S. Army contract for HoloLens headset production Clare Duffy / CNN : Microsoft earns contract worth up to $21.9 billion to make AR devices for the US Army Jackson Barnett / FedScoop : Microsoft wins $21B contract to produce 120,000 AR headsets for the Army Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : Microsoft wins potential $22B contract to supply HoloLens AR headsets to US Army Tweets: Monica Perez / @monicaperezshow : just to put this in perspective, the hotly contested pentagon cloud contract was “only” $10B https://www.cnbc.com/... David Brown / @dbrownanalyst : There are deals and then their are deals! Microsoft wins contract to make modified HoloLens for U.S. Army https://www.cnbc.com/... Brad Smith / @bradsmi : For two centuries, technology has been changing the nature of what is needed to defend a nation. We are longtime supporters of the @DeptofDefense and @USArmy's effort to modernize the U.S. Military through advanced technology. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ... Daniel Newman / @danielnewmanuv : People often ask about the validity of augmented reality, and the companies that are driving the #AR and #XR space. This deal with @Microsoft and @USArmy represents a great application for this technology. Also, seemed to drive a nice pop in $MSFT today. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ... @bkaradzic : Media HoloLens: “is best suited to professional business applications”, “enables collaboration among surgeons worldwide”, “will be used to teach (bio)medical students about the anatomy of the ankle”, etc. Where is actually used: https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ... Dina Bass / @dinabass : Microsoft says the HoloLens deal with the U.S. Army is now worth as much as $21.9 billion over 10 years. Army confirms the deal is moving forward into production. One interesting thing: Microsoft will manufacture the devices in the U.S.: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Hadi Partovi / @hadip : $22B for 120,000 AR headsets? That is about $180,000 for each headset! Something doesn't add up 🤔 https://www.cnbc.com/... Dan Abelon / @dabelon : Big news in the world of AR. I do hope they deliver a lot more than 120k headsets at that price. https://techcrunch.com/... Brad Sams / @bdsams : And just like that, the R&D costs for this product have been more than recovered. https://twitter.com/... Daniel Rubino / @daniel_rubino : @TheRichWoods I think there will be once the headwear bit works out. Apple can leverage iPhone, Watch, AirPods as a piecemeal wearable computer with only the lenses missing. Lots of potential for that setup that really no one else can touch. Brad Sams / @bdsams : Rumor: Apple to launch VR glasses soon Microsoft: Hold my DoD contract Daniel Rubino / @daniel_rubino : Apple will likely nail consumer AR, but for the rest of the working world, Microsoft has a massive headstart already. Rich Woods / @therichwoods : @Daniel_Rubino That's assuming that there's a market for consumer AR. There's a reason that Microsoft isn't aiming for that. David Armano / @armano : Well it's not what we envisioned but it's a huge deal. Drones next. Wait... https://techcrunch.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : One of the interesting things about big tech is how different the cultures are. At Google, operating in China or building tech for the U.S. military resulted in significant employee protests. At Microsoft (or Apple), these are just another Tuesday. https://techcrunch.com/... @onekade : Microsoft is helping the USG turn war into a video game. One of the reasons we are banning face surveillance is that we know military technologies end up in police hands. We do not accept living in that kind of world, and we are organizing so we won't. https://twitter.com/... Dan Greene / @greene_dm : Between this and JEDI, and of course all the smaller, less spectacular things, is MS the biggest Big Tech defense contractor? Palantir is just a measly one billy. https://twitter.com/... Daniel Rubino / @daniel_rubino : People keep talking about Apple and AR, but as I've said in the past: 1. Microsoft is the only company with AR out in the field being used right now e.g. schools, operating rooms, factories 2. It's the only AR system actually making real money today Case in point ... https://twitter.com/... @esportsian : Step one in building a fully functional HUD for combat operations. This is probably using BFTs and some comm. Hopefully we see some health integrations where we can track troops vitals during ops https://twitter.com/... lndian Bronson / @againstgop : The US's enemies will die, gasping for air, in laughter https://twitter.com/... @ethangach : Army going to pay Microsoft up to 3 Bethesdas worth to turn it's minecraft augmented reality toy into a war device https://twitter.com/... Tom Warren / @tomwarren : we were supposed to have flying cars by now. Instead, we have soldiers with augmented reality HoloLens headsets https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon : The original contract described how Microsoft would help the U.S. military “increase lethality” on the battlefield. https://twitter.com/... Karen Weise / @kyweise : Wow. That price tag is two JEDIs! https://twitter.com/... Dina Bass / @dinabass : As we've covered previously, some Microsoft employees are not happy about the use of the company's tech for this use case. Ryan / @ryanfduffy : AR headset price tiers consumer = N/A enterprise = $3.5k military = $182k https://twitter.com/... Kyle Russell / @kylebrussell : https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Steve Kovach / @stevekovach : $MSFT up 2.79% on this... https://twitter.com/... Jordan Novet / @jordannovet : if JEDI sounded like a big win for Microsoft, then Microsoft's new contract to make modified HoloLens for the US Army could be twice as big. it's worth up to $21.9 billion over 10 years https://www.cnbc.com/... Thanks: @fxshaw