this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
144 points (96.8% liked)
Technology
63010 readers
4730 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
What problem are these even designed to solve?
Wiki makes me think it’s a hammer in search of a nail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Visual_Augmentation_System
The problem it's trying to solve is "How do we make ungodly amounts of money as 'Defense Contractors'?"
To be genuinely fair, this sort of waste is part and parcel to the US Military.
For sure. Head mounted displays are useful for, say, technical repairs. And I see the value as an alternative to the F35 helmet. But besides that … for infantry? Idk. Wishful thinking IMHO
This is pretty much the story of the entire Land Warrior program. Nobody ever expected it to be a Real Thing, it was always a pie-in-the-sky boondoggle to make a shitload of money for the MIC.
It's made by the same kind of techbros who are angry that the "future doesn't look like the future", that got us the Cybertruck and the other recent Tesla abominations.
When artists/writers design future tech for their cyberpunk dystopia, coolness is a greater factor than usability, especially as most creators don't have much experience with product design. I just go with the "rule of cool" and aesthetics, even in cases where stuff would look obsolete by today's standards, because some powerful people in the tech industry decided everything must be touchscreens and voice commands.
Friend/foe identification
Visualising objectives
Highlighting dangers
Etc.
Maybe… I want to read the proposal honestly
Are these things you thought of or based on something else?
It's the type of problems that can be potentially solved using AR