“A new teammate.” The start-up Anduril, founded by Palmer Luckey, to whom we owe the Oculus virtual reality headsets (now Meta VR), presented its Defense projects on the night of October 13 to 14.
In doing so, it lifted the veil on Eagleeye, a series of modular products, built around augmented reality and powered by artificial intelligence. Its goal is to “unify command and control, digital vision, and survivability within a single, adaptable architecture,” the press release states.
A “vision” that adapts in real time
More specifically, it is about offering a mixed reality platform that allows the US military to benefit from powerful reconnaissance and mission planning tools, as well as glasses that can be used in war zones.
“We don’t want to give the military a new tool, we give them a new teammate,” explains Palmer Lucey, who says that while the principle of an AI-generated partner has been imagined “for decades, for the first time it is very real.”
Therefore, several tools are available, including a high-resolution three-dimensional collaborative map. In this way, soldiers will be able to prepare their missions and coordinate their movements, while, once on site, they will be able to integrate a live video transmission that will adapt the virtual terrain in real time.
Mixed reality, for its part, consists of offering an interface that will show, for example, the exact location of a soldier’s companions in a building, as well as the position of enemies or seeing “through” an obstacle.
Anduril also claims to be able to ensure that a soldier can operate unmanned aerial vehicles or “robots” on the battlefield, even in a hostile environment.
To succeed in its bet, the American startup has partnered with several big names in technology, in particular Meta and Qualcomm, which will respectively provide the software base and specific chips for mixed reality.
The feat turns out to be miniaturization, especially in the case of glasses. Since the soldiers are already very busy, Anduril cannot afford to offer a classic “helmet”. Beyond the investments of its partners mentioned above, Anduril can also count on the government. In August 2025, the startup won a lucrative $159 million contract with the US military as part of a program aimed at “scaling up” soldiers.
Source: BFM TV
