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Congress says the Army can’t spend $400M buying Microsoft HoloLens headsets
- bobro 4y ago$400M for 6900 units is about $58K per unit. Good god.
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- ronsor 4y agoIt's military grade!
- akomtu 4y ago25% of that would probably go to fund the reelection campaign of the right congressmen.
- warinukraine 4y agoYou're wildly overestimating how much it costs to buy a congressman.
- jdsully 4y agoThey appear to be combat headsets with unique functions like night vision - not the ones you'd buy for gaming.
- orange_fritter 4y agoInstead Congress is sending a few million to figure out how to "improve" the headset. I wonder how the improvements will affect the price.
- c4ptnjack 4y ago~$60k for a specialized tool makes sense However it's clear we are years and years of development away from this actually being relevant over conventional tools. It really seems like were just giving money to Microsoft for developing what will ultimately just be internal patents going towards consumer or business facing products in the nearer term.
- tinglymintyfrsh 4y agoGeeze, why don't they go for MagicLeap 2 Enterprise edition ($?) or Meta Quest Pro ($1500)? Also, I think the sticker shock is there but it depends on the value it brings. If it's well-justified to bring a major advantage, then it's acceptable. Otherwise it looks like MIC wasting $$$ on toys when there's unmet social and health needs that are desperately underfunded.
- dv_dt 4y agoThey will probably end up requiring a buy of $116k/unit headsets from LockMartRayBoMageddon which will then be subcontracted to Microsoft
- waste_monk 4y agoAs I understand these IVAS headsets bear very little relation to the commercial hololens devices. I'm not saying Microsoft aren't doing this for a healthy profit, but there's a significant amount of engineering work for relatively small production numbers, and most of it would not be transferable to the consumer and business segment hololens gear. At least initially probably blocked for sale to other friendly militaries as well. Even simple things like repackaging and ruggedising COTS hardware to pass shock/vibration standards, weatherproofing it for a range of adverse conditions, etc. is a reasonable cause to add "military grade" markup.
- abudabi123 4y agoYears ago on yt the Boston Dynamics robodog was demoed at a targetted $20k a unit. In place of one set of Hololens you send two robodogs on a oneway trip to the Army's field.