{"id":248575,"date":"2026-05-18T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/inside-anduril-and-metas-quest-to-make-smart-glasses-for-warfare\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:05:12","slug":"inside-anduril-and-metas-quest-to-make-smart-glasses-for-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/inside-anduril-and-metas-quest-to-make-smart-glasses-for-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Anduril and Meta\u2019s quest to make smart glasses for warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inside Anduril and Meta\u2019s quest to make smart glasses for warfare<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/05\/18\/1137412\/inside-anduril-and-metas-quest-to-make-smart-glasses-for-warfare\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-18 12:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Anduril actually has two such projects in the works. The first is the Army\u2019s Soldier Born Mission Command, or SBMC, for which the company won a $159 million prototyping contract last year to work with Meta on augmented-reality glasses to attach to existing military helmets. But Anduril has also embarked on a self-funded side quest, announced in October, to design its own helmet and headset combo called EagleEye. This is something the military has not asked for, but Anduril insists it will prefer it and purchase it in the end.<\/p>\n

So far, both systems are years away. The Army isn’t expected to move its top choice for the SBMC program into production until 2028, if it picks one at all (the previous lead for the effort, Microsoft, was set to receive a $22 billion production contract that was ultimately cancelled when the glasses didn’t prove viable). But Barnett told MIT Technology Review about where both Anduril’s prototypes are headed.<\/p>\n

Depending on the situation, the glasses for either prototype will overlay certain information onto a soldier\u2019s field of view. This might be as simple as a compass or as complex as an entire map of the area, information about where nearby drones are flying, or AI-driven recognition of a target like a truck.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The soldier would then speak to the interface in plain language\u2014for example, to order an evacuation for someone who\u2019s been injured or to plan a route taking into account which areas are off limits. A large language model\u2014Anduril is in tests with Google\u2019s Gemini, Meta\u2019s Llama, and even Anthropic\u2019s Claude, despite the company\u2019s conflict with the Pentagon\u2014will be used to help translate a soldier\u2019s speech into commands the software can follow. And the engine for it all will be Anduril\u2019s software Lattice, which incorporates data from lots of different military hardware into one picture. The Army announced in March that it would spend $20 billion to integrate Lattice with essentially its entire…<\/p>\n

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