{"id":146366,"date":"2022-09-14T01:22:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T06:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/us-military-set-to-get-first-delivery-from-22-billion-microsoft-hololens-deal"},"modified":"2022-09-14T01:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T06:22:58","slug":"us-military-set-to-get-first-delivery-from-22-billion-microsoft-hololens-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/us-military-set-to-get-first-delivery-from-22-billion-microsoft-hololens-deal","title":{"rendered":"US military set to get first delivery from $22 billion Microsoft HoloLens deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-military-set-to-get-first-delivery-from-22-billion-microsoft-hololens-deal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s augmented reality headset the HoloLens has been in the works for years now, but it\u2019s been a while since we\u2019ve heard any news. We were seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hololens-offers-imperfect-but-impressive-augmented-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demos of it way back in 2015<\/a> (opens in new tab), but Microsoft has been pretty quiet on the tech in recent years when it comes to a consumer release.<\/p>\n<p>What we\u2019ve heard tons about is Microsoft\u2019s deal to supply the United States Army with HoloLens tech. We first got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/us-army-plans-to-use-hololens-headsets-to-increase-lethality-of-combat-missions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wind of the deal back in 2018<\/a> (opens in new tab) with talks of a $480 million contract to help \u201cincrease lethality\u201d of combat missions. It wasn\u2019t until 2021 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/microsoft-signs-dollar22-billion-army-contract-for-military-hololens-gear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft officially signed a much pricier $22 billion dollar contract<\/a> (opens in new tab) with the army for military grade HoloLens supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s augmented reality headset the HoloLens has been in the works for years now, but it\u2019s been a while since we\u2019ve heard any news. We were seeing demos of it way back in 2015 (opens in new tab), but Microsoft has been pretty quiet on the tech in recent years when it comes to a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146366","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}