Anduril, a company focused on military technology, has partnered with Meta to unveil the world's first artificial intelligence-based mixed reality (MR) system for the military — EagleEye.
EagleEye will be integrated into soldiers' helmets, helping to evenly distribute weight, reduce the size of traditional night vision goggles, and align sensors at the soldier's center of gravity. This will make EagleEye a standard technology for military operations.
“We’re not just giving soldiers a new tool; we’re providing them with a new teammate,” said Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril. “The concept of an AI partner embedded in your display has been envisioned for decades. EagleEye marks the first instance where this has become a reality.”
EagleEye enables mission command through a high-quality, collaborative 3D table. Operators can rehearse missions, coordinate movements, and integrate real-time video feeds.
Anduril highlights that the HUD enhances operator visibility by overlaying digital information onto the real world, providing essential contextual data. EagleEye includes a daytime HUD that is optically transparent and a digital nighttime HUD, each specifically designed for their respective environments.
The “blue force” tracking system allows military personnel to know the precise location of their teammates — such as within a building or on a specific floor, rather than just seeing them as dots on a 2D map. With Anduril's Lattice distributed sensor network, data from the battlefield is collected in real-time, enabling operators to detect and track threats even when there are obstructions to direct visibility.
Additionally, EagleEye offers ballistic protection to mitigate blast waves. The system features rear and side view sensors, spatial sound, and radio frequency detection capabilities.
Using EagleEye, operators will also be able to control drones, call in fire support, and coordinate with other robotic allies. The Lattice mesh network ensures resilient command and control in limited, degraded, intermittent, or constrained environments (DDIL).
