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Microsoft has recently announced that it had just officially won a deal to supply the US Army with AR or augmented reality headsets. These upcoming headsets are reportedly going to be based on the company's HoloLens product and also backed up by the Azure cloud computing services.
Microsoft AR Headset Contract with the US Army
The contact could reportedly be worth all the way up to $21.88 billion over the course of 10 years according to a Microsoft spokesman's statement to Reuters. It was also said that over the course of the past two years, Microsoft has actually been working with the US Army on the new prototyping phase of what would be called the IVAS or the Integrated Visual Augmentation System.