{"id":71392,"date":"2017-07-30T14:42:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T21:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/us-navy-gunners-are-testing-a-wearable-heads-up-display"},"modified":"2017-07-30T14:42:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T21:42:24","slug":"us-navy-gunners-are-testing-a-wearable-heads-up-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/us-navy-gunners-are-testing-a-wearable-heads-up-display","title":{"rendered":"US Navy Gunners Are Testing A Wearable Heads-Up Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-navy-gunners-are-testing-a-wearable-heads-up-display.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A service lab has turned a lieutenant\u2019s brainstorm into a testable prototype dubbed the GunnAR augmented-reality headset.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In just a year<\/strong>, a wearable headset designed to help U.S. Navy gunnery sailors cut through the fog of combat has evolved from a lieutenant\u2019s brainstorm to a prototype being tested in various exercises.<\/p>\n<p>Conceived by a junior officer aboard the destroyer Gridley, the idea for GunnAR was presented at last year\u2019s ONR Innovation Jam, where it received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=93698\">first prize<\/a> \u2014 and $100,000 to make it real. After rapid progressions through various development milestones, the blue-tinted visor was put to the test in the Trident Warrior 2017 experiment aboard USS Bunker Hill, where sailors used it to put live fire on targets.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/07\/us-navy-gunners-are-testing-wearable-heads-display\/139644\/?oref=DefenseOneFB&utm_content=bufferea1a1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/07\/us-navy-gunners...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A service lab has turned a lieutenant\u2019s brainstorm into a testable prototype dubbed the GunnAR augmented-reality headset. In just a year, a wearable headset designed to help U.S. Navy gunnery sailors cut through the fog of combat has evolved from a lieutenant\u2019s brainstorm to a prototype being tested in various exercises. Conceived by a junior [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,9,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-military","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71392","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}