Published on: 2025-06-06 17:20:28
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey, the original founder of Oculus VR who has since become a military contractor, weren’t on the best of terms for many years. After all, Zuck is the one who fired Luckey after he helped establish Meta’s entire VR business. That’s now water under the bridge. There’s major money to be made in military tech, but Zuckerberg and Luckey—two nerds who made billions off their consumer products—are also bound tight by their newfound ultra-masculine, Trump-supporti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 05:10:00
1 Anduril is partnering with Meta to build an advanced weapons system EagleEye’s VR headsets will enhance soldiers’ hearing and vision. (WSJ $) + Palmer Luckey wants to turn “warfighters into technomancers.” (TechCrunch) + Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg have buried the hatchet, then. (Insider $) + Palmer Luckey on the Pentagon’s future of mixed reality. (MIT Technology Review) 2 A new Texas law requires app stores to verify users’ ages It’s following in Utah’s footsteps, which passed a simil
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 13:44:05
Meta is bidding to build high-tech wearables for the US Army, as reported by Wall Street Journal. The company is teaming up with Palmer Luckey's defense firm Anduril Industries on the project, which has been dubbed EagleEye. The contract is worth around $100 million, though it hasn't been awarded yet. It's part of a larger $22 billion Army wearables project of which Anduril is the lead vendor. As expected from Meta and Luckey, EagleEye will be a line of tech-forward helmets, glasses and other w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 17:34:10
Meta and Anduril, the defense-tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey, announced Thursday that they've formed a partnership to create virtual and augmented reality devices intended for use by the U.S. army. The partnership represents a major step by Meta to supply cutting-edge technology to the government in addition to working once again with Luckey, who sold his Oculus VR startup to the social media company for $2 billion in 2014. Luckey and Meta had an acrimonious split, with the Anduril foun
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 17:47:13
On Thursday, Anduril and Meta announced news that feels like a fairy tale ending for Anduril co-founder, Palmer Luckey. The two companies are working together to build extended reality (XR) devices for the U.S. military, Anduril announced in a blog post. “I am glad to be working with Meta once again,” Luckey is quoted as saying in the post. “My mission has long been to turn warfighters into technomancers, and the products we are building with Meta do just that.” This partnership stems from the
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