Enlarge / The US Army is testing a custom headset based off of Microsoft's HoloLens. (credit: Microsoft)
Microsoft and the US Army are continuing to explore how to make mixed reality an aid rather than a hindrance for soldiers. A US Army report that Bloomberg and Business Insider claim to have accessed indicates that Microsoft's HoloLens-based headsets, during testing, made soldiers feel physically ill and more vulnerable to harm.
Insider said an excerpt of a US Army report on a "recent" field test dictated to it by an unnamed employee included a soldier who tested the tech saying, "The devices would have gotten us killed."
This was reportedly in relation to the light that emits from mixed reality headsets like the HoloLens.
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Enlarge / The US Army is testing a custom headset based off of Microsoft's HoloLens. (credit: Microsoft)
Microsoft and the US Army are continuing to explore how to make mixed reality an aid rather than a hindrance for soldiers. A US Army report that Bloomberg and Business Insider claim to have accessed indicates that Microsoft's HoloLens-based headsets, during testing, made soldiers feel physically ill and more vulnerable to harm.
Insider said an excerpt of a US Army report on a "recent" field test dictated to it by an unnamed employee included a soldier who tested the tech saying, "The devices would have gotten us killed."
This was reportedly in relation to the light that emits from mixed reality headsets like the HoloLens.
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October 13, 2022 at 10:49PM
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