Remember how the heads-up display on Halo seemed so cool 20 years ago?
The HUD gave players a constant readout of the landscape, enemies, friendlies, and ammo levels — pretty much everything a soldier needs to fight.
Well, the sci-fi just moved from video games into reality:
Superpowers for Superheroes.
Today, we unveil EagleEye: the family of warfighter augments that place mission command & AI directly into the operator's helmet.
That's right: A video game-style HUD, but in real life.
On its website, the tech company Anduril (named for Aragorn's sword in Lord of the Rings) says its "EagleEye" platform "equip[s] warfighters with enhanced perception, lethal connectivity, heightened survivability, and mission planning to see the fight earlier, decide faster, and act with better information."
Footage of the system backs up those ambitious claims:
By using automated drones that give warfighters an aerial map of the battlefield, teams "can now detect and track threats even when terrain or structures block direct line of sight:"
The platform can even show a teammate's "exact position within a building or on a specific floor, rather than simply appearing as a dot on a 2D map."
This is even more advanced than current 4th-generation night vision, which helps to outline objects on the battlefield.
Combined with spacial augmented reality devices, this tech is going to be more advanced than the Master Chief's Mjolnir armor in no time.
It does have its critics, however.
The company speaks of the tech as if it's a real-world partner:
'We don't want to give service members a new tool - we're giving them a new teammate,' said Palmer Luckey, Anduril's founder. 'The idea of an AI partner embedded in your display has been imagined for decades. EagleEye is the first time it's real.'
"AI partner"??
Time to finish the fight!
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