Comment on Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft

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• jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  having been in combat, with electronic gear designed for the military, i can say this will be a million percent terrible. it’s gonna be too heavy (already they carry too much- i have degenerated discs as do many of my buds) and will break constantly. to say nothing of keeping it charged- who wants range anxiety in a combat situation.

  now i will say that going to Iraq radicalized me against war and i filed as a conscientious objector, but back in those days right after 9/11 there wasn’t much of an antiwar movement.

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  • Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My first thought was the reliability. Can you rely on this new tech in a life or death situation. I didn’t even think of the batteries.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I might be fearing something unrealistic, but hope this at least doesn’t depend on network connectivity at all times.

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