Meta joins Anduril to build XR products for US armed forces

Mark Zuckerberg‘s Meta has collaborated with Palmer Luckey-owned defence tech company Anduril Industries to roll out a range of integrated extended reality (XR) products for the US military.

The project has been funded through private capital without taxpayer support, Anduril said in a statement Thursday. It will utilise high-performance components and technology originally built for commercial use to save costs for the armed forces, it added.

“Meta has spent the last decade building artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) to enable…