Anduril Industries, Luckey's latest venture, is embedding its Lattice software into the Army's Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS). These HoloLens-based goggles will now bombard soldiers with live data from drones, ground vehicles, and aerial defence systems.

Luckey claims his headset gives soldiers Superman's vision but without that annoying melt-things effect.

He even drew parallels to the headsets in Robert Heinlein’s 1950s sci-fi novel Starship Troopers because nothing says progress like emulating a dystopian future where neo-nazi run everything and distract the world with an off-planet war on bugs.

The initial IVAS headset, rolled out by Vole in 2021, was a bit of a disaster, causing headaches, nausea, and eyestrain. But fear not. Microsoft has since tweaked the design and promises further refinements by 2025. The US Army plans to shell out up to $21.9 billion over the next decade on this project.