--- title: "Inside Anduril and Meta’s quest to make smart glasses for warfare" url: https://daily.dev/posts/inside-anduril-and-meta-s-quest-to-make-smart-glasses-for-warfare-bulsx24bd source_url: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/18/1137412/inside-anduril-and-metas-quest-to-make-smart-glasses-for-warfare type: article source: "MIT Technology Review" published: 2026-05-18T16:31:55.446Z updated: 2026-05-18T16:32:58.298Z tags: ["llm", "ar"] reading_time: 8 upvotes: 5 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Inside Anduril and Meta’s quest to make smart glasses for warfare **[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 8 min read · 5 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Anduril and Meta are jointly developing augmented-reality smart glasses for the US Army under a $159 million prototyping contract called Soldier Born Mission Command (SBMC). The system aims to overlay battlefield data onto soldiers' fields of view, enable drone control via voice commands and eye-tracking, and integrate with Anduril's Lattice software platform — which recently secured a $20 billion Army integration contract. Anduril is also self-funding a separate helmet-integrated system called EagleEye. LLMs from Google Gemini, Meta Llama, and Anthropic Claude are being tested to translate natural language into commands. Key challenges include weight, battery life, dust/explosion resistance, offline AI inference, and the risk of information overload for soldiers. The Army isn't expected to select a production system until 2028 at the earliest, following Microsoft's cancelled $22 billion IVAS contract after the glasses failed viability tests. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@henbomb** · 0 upvotes > yeah lets murder each other, woohoo! yay! im so proud of humanity ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Anduril’s new EagleEye MR helmet sees Palmer Luckey return to his VR roots](https://daily.dev/posts/anduril-s-new-eagleeye-mr-helmet-sees-palmer-luckey-return-to-his-vr-roots-2ghukr3db) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Palmer Luckey’s Anduril launches EagleEye military helmet with help from buddy Zuck](https://daily.dev/posts/palmer-luckey-s-anduril-launches-eagleeye-military-helmet-with-help-from-buddy-zuck-jyq4rvizj) · The Verge · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [Google announces Gemini-powered smart glasses at I/O 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/google-announces-gemini-powered-smart-glasses-at-i-o-2026-njocl4li9) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#ar](https://daily.dev/tags/ar) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/inside-anduril-and-meta-s-quest-to-make-smart-glasses-for-warfare-bulsx24bd)