Anduril, a military technology company, in partnership with Meta, has introduced the first artificial intelligence-based mixed reality (MR) system for the military — EagleEye.
EagleEye will be embedded in soldiers' helmets. The system helps distribute weight evenly, reduces the size of conventional night vision goggles, and aligns the sensors with the soldier's center of gravity. This will make EagleEye a standard technology for performing tasks in military operations.
"We don’t want to give service members a new tool—we’re giving them a new teammate," said Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril. "The idea of an AI partner embedded in your display has been imagined for decades. EagleEye is the first time it’s real."
EagleEye enables mission command through a high-quality, collaborative 3D table. Operators can rehearse missions, coordinate movements, and integrate live video feeds anchored to the terrain.
Anduril notes that the HUD enhances the operator’s view by overlaying digital information on the real world, providing important contextual information. EagleEye includes an optically transparent daytime HUD and a digital nighttime HUD, each specifically designed for its environment.
The Blue Force Tracking System allows soldiers to know the exact location of their comrades — for example, within a building or on a specific floor — rather than just seeing them as dots on a 2D map. Anduril’s Lattice distributed sensor network collects data from across the battlefield in real time, allowing operators to detect and track threats even when there are obstructions to line of sight.
In addition, EagleEye also provides ballistic protection to mitigate the blast wave. The system also has a rear and side view sensor, spatial audio and radio frequency detection.
Additionally, using EagleEye, operators will be able to control unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), call in fire support, and control other robotic allies. The Lattice mesh network provides resilient command and control in constrained, degraded, intermittent, or time-limited environments (DDIL).