{"id":143206,"date":"2022-07-30T14:25:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T19:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/microsofts-battlefield-ar-headset-in-jeopardy-after-deep-budget-cuts"},"modified":"2022-07-30T14:25:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T19:25:49","slug":"microsofts-battlefield-ar-headset-in-jeopardy-after-deep-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/microsofts-battlefield-ar-headset-in-jeopardy-after-deep-budget-cuts","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Battlefield AR Headset in Jeopardy After Deep Budget Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsofts-battlefield-ar-headset-in-jeopardy-after-deep-budget-cuts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s big defense contract that looks to supply the US Army with modified HoloLens AR headsets isn\u2019t going so well. As first reported by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-07-28\/microsoft-army-goggle-concerns-remain-senate-funding-panel-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>,<\/em> the Senate panel that oversees defense spending announced significant cuts to the Army\u2019s fiscal 2023 procurement request for the device.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft announced last year it had won a US Army defense contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/microsoft-hololens-2-us-army-contract-production-phase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worth up to $22 billion<\/a> to develop an Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), a tactical AR headset for soldiers based on HoloLens 2 technology.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Appropriations Defense Subcommittee announced it\u2019s cut $350 million from the Army\u2019s procurement plans for IVAS, leaving around $50 million for the device. The subcommittee cites concerns based around the program\u2019s overall effectiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s big defense contract that looks to supply the US Army with modified HoloLens AR headsets isn\u2019t going so well. As first reported by Bloomberg, the Senate panel that oversees defense spending announced significant cuts to the Army\u2019s fiscal 2023 procurement request for the device. Microsoft announced last year it had won a US Army [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143206","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}