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Palmer Luckey Is Bringing Anduril Smarts to Microsoft’s Military Headset

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Palmer Luckey Is Bringing Anduril Smarts to Microsoft’s Military Headset

When Palmer Luckey was hacking together virtual reality headsets at his startup Oculus VR in the mid-2010s, he would sometimes imagine a future in which US soldiers used the technology to sharpen their battlefield senses. That vision is now virtually a reality after a deal that will bring software from his defense startup, Anduril, to … Read more

Anduril Is Building Out the Pentagon’s Dream of Deadly Drone Swarms

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Anduril Is Building Out the Pentagon’s Dream of Deadly Drone Swarms

When Palmer Luckey cofounded the defense startup Anduril in 2017, three years after selling his virtual reality startup Oculus to Facebook, the idea of a twentysomething from the tech industry challenging the giant contractors that build fighter jets, tanks, and warships for the US military seemed somewhat far-fetched. Seven years on, Luckey is showing that … Read more