Anduril Reveals First Have a look at Capabilities of ’EagleEye’ Navy XR Headset

Anduril, Palmer Luckey’s navy tech firm, unveiled EagleEye, its XR headset system in-built collaboration with Meta.

The Information

Anduril introduced in Might it was partnering with Meta to construct XR methods for troopers, which the businesses mentioned would intention to ship “the world’s finest AR and VR methods for the US navy.”

Now, the corporate has unveiled the EagleEye {hardware} and given a primary take a look at ostensibly a behind-the-lens view.

In a video launched on X, Anduril reveals off numerous methods, which stich in a wide range of data into the soldier’s AR show, together with a heads-up mini-map, the flexibility to modify between Low Gentle and Thermal shows, an overhead drone shot, and AI-driven monitoring markers to maintain friendlies clearly seen, even when obscured behind objects.

See earlier than you’re seen.

EagleEye enhances the warfighter’s notion by overlaying digital data onto the true world, delivering important real-time insights. pic.twitter.com/Yl0tmlhHzd

— Anduril Industries (@anduriltech) October 13, 2025

Prior to now, the corporate has maintained a reasonably inflexible “no CGI” coverage in advertising and marketing photos and movies. We’ve reached out to Anduril to substantiate whether or not the video above was captured in-headset, and can replace after we know extra.

Anduril additionally unveiled among the {hardware} used to drive these interactions, which seems to be a pair of AR glasses with optionally available shroud, which can be utilized in brighter circumstances to compensate for the system’s mild throughput.

Anduril says EagleEye offers “enhanced notion, deadly connectivity, and heightened survivability” by combining a variety of data streams from its Lattice battlefield platform, reminiscent of RF signature detection, rearview cameras, non-emissive lasers, biometric and environmental sensors, and real-time battlefield alerts.

This comes as Anduril is reportedly set to compete for a U.S. Military contract towards protection firm Rivet, which seeks to revamp the earlier Built-in Visible Augmentation System (IVAS) venture initially awarded to Microsoft in 2018.

Microsoft tried to supply a combat-ready AR headset based mostly on HoloLens 2 able to fulfilling the $22 billion, 10-year manufacturing deal, however was plagued with usability and luxury points.

My Take

Supplied the video is a behind-the-lens seize, it comes as no actual shock to me that EagleEye’s UI seems prefer it was plucked straight out of contemporary shooters. And I feel that serves an vital twin goal.

Through the years, video games have been in a position to think about and evolve helpful UI conventions and apply them broadly, making them not solely extra mature management schemes worthy of copying, but additionally ones that a lot of immediately’s troopers already acknowledge.

You in all probability don’t want to show most 20-something guys the way to regulate a mini-map whereas toggling by waypoints, totally different modes and information sources—it’s data most (if not all) aspirational troopers implicitly perceive as a core skillset of video games like COD or Battlefield.

And in the identical breath, navy contractors don’t must reinvent the wheel. For instance, the U.S. Division of Conflict (ex-Division of Protection) has undoubtedly racked their brains on totally different management schemes for a wide range of fight roles—drones, ship periscopes, ordinance robots, the listing goes on—a lot of which truly depend on gamepads for enter.

Meals for thought: for all of its technical wonders, I don’t suppose this stops at troopers carrying decked-out AR glasses. The identical methods Silicon Valley protection startups are constructing immediately may sooner or later be the idea of telepresence robots operated by troopers sitting in air conditioned bases stateside, very similar to drone operators do at present.

That’s the anthropocentric view at the very least. A decidedly extra horrifying actuality may contain, for the dearth of a greater phrase, autonomous robotic troopers, which isn’t far off from a few of Anduril’s present initiatives, which incorporates autonomous fighter jets (Fury) and autonomous submarines (Dive-XL). I’ll depart the comparisons to Skynet for commenters beneath.