{"id":121108,"date":"2021-03-31T18:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/microsoft-wins-22-billion-deal-making-headsets-for-us-army"},"modified":"2021-03-31T18:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:23:15","slug":"microsoft-wins-22-billion-deal-making-headsets-for-us-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/microsoft-wins-22-billion-deal-making-headsets-for-us-army","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft wins $22 billion deal making headsets for US Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-wins-22-billion-deal-making-headsets-for-us-army2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft won a nearly $22 billion contract to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/31\/army-moves-microsoft-hololens-based-headset-from-prototyping-to-production-phase\/\">supply U.S. Army combat troops<\/a> with its augmented reality headsets.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft and the Army <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peosoldier.army.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/2556870\/ivas-production-contract-award\/\">separately announced the deal<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The technology is based on Microsoft\u2019s HoloLens headsets, which were originally intended for the video game and entertainment industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft won a nearly $22 billion contract to supply U.S. Army combat troops with its augmented reality headsets. Microsoft and the Army separately announced the deal Wednesday. The technology is based on Microsoft\u2019s HoloLens headsets, which were originally intended for the video game and entertainment industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}