{"id":150405,"date":"2025-06-01T21:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T21:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150405\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T21:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T21:11:09","slug":"meta-joins-the-race-to-develop-augmented-reality-for-the-us-military-alongside-anduril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150405\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta joins the race to develop augmented reality for the US military, alongside Anduril"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0538ed3_sirius-fs-upload-1-r9hkwnsfr6br-1748608521761-httpssubstack-post-media-s3-amaz.jpg\" alt=\"Palmer Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg, in a picture released with a statement announcing a new partnership between Anduril and Meta, on May 29, 2025.\"  width=\"664\" height=\"443\"\/>    Palmer Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg, in a picture released with a statement announcing a new partnership between Anduril and Meta, on May 29, 2025.  ANDURIL                <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">They have buried the hatchet. Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg, and Anduril, a cutting-edge defense technology company founded by Palmer Luckey, announced on Thursday, May 29, a new partnership focused on military technologies related to immersive reality (XR, combining virtual reality and augmented reality).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">This is not their first collaboration. Luckey is known for co-founding Oculus, a pioneering virtual reality company specializing in headsets for video games, in the early 2010s. Oculus was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $2\u00a0billion, which marked the beginning of Zuckerberg&#8217;s ambitions in the virtual reality sector.<\/p>\n<p>                                               An early supporter of Donald Trump           <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">Luckey later left Facebook in 2017 and immediately founded Anduril. His departure attracted significant attention, against a backdrop of political tensions within Facebook. A libertarian, Luckey voiced his support for Donald Trump early on. In 2016, he was accused of backing a group fiercely critical of Hillary Clinton, which reportedly contributed to his ousting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"reading-mode-only \"><strong>You have 81.07% of this article left to read. The rest is for subscribers only.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Palmer Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg, in a picture released with a statement announcing a new partnership between Anduril&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-150405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-virtual-reality","12":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114610168413102319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}