Anduril sets sights on Army VR headset deal after $1.7b Navy contract
The US defence startup launched by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is pushing rocket motors and VR headsets as it expands in Australia.
Palmer Luckey’s startup Anduril is in negotiations with the Australian Army over a deal for its militarised mixed-reality headsets, fresh from securing a $1.7 billion contract with the Royal Australian Navy.
Nine years after selling his Oculus VR platform to Meta for USD2 billion ($3 billion), Luckey has teamed up with Meta to deliver a next-generation, militarised version of the headsets to the US Army — and potentially the Australian Army too.
“We’ve just won a massive contract in the United States,” Anduril Australia CEO David Goodrich said, referring to a USD159 million prototype tender with the US Army. “And we’re talking to the Australian Army about that capability here as well.”
Anduril says its soldier-borne mission command (SBMC) helmets combine night- and thermal-vision functions with augmented reality overlays that display real-time battlefield intelligence.
