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 a US Army head mounted display developed by Microsoft. “The idea is to enhance soldiers,” Luckey tells WIRED over Zoom from his home in Newport Beach,...
