“HoloLens” combat helmet: the US military stops its collaboration with Microsoft

The disillusion must be great great on the side of Microsoft. The US Army announces the end of its collaboration with the Redmond firm, a collaboration that focused exclusively on the design of combat helmets equipped with an AR display visor (HoloLens type). The US military therefore terminates a $ 22 billion (!) Contract, arguing that the AR combat helmet would ultimately not be suitable for field operations. In detail, the helmet would work poorly in the rain and its external battery would add too much weight to the Marine’s package.

The helmet could, however, display a great deal of useful data (position of the enemy sent by satellite, facial recognition, video stream sent back to HQ, aiming aid for long-range weapons, etc.), but the army has therefore felt that the weak points outweighed the strong points. All is not lost for Microsoft since the latter preserves the Jedi contract (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure), which this time concerns an ultra secure cloud service for the US military.