Microsoft Wins Billion-Dollar Army Contract To Produce HoloLens AR Headsets

The U.S. Army has awarded Microsoft with a multi-billion dollar contract to produce augmented-reality headsets for its soldiers.The deal allows Microsoft to manufacture the "Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS)" for a fixed price, said to be worth up to $21.8 billion USD over 10 years.Microsoft says that the IVAS headsets are based on its HoloLens augmented reality headsets and utilize its Azure cloud services. The gear is supposed to "keep soldiers safer and make them more effective," a...