Palmer Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg never quite cracked virtual reality headsets for consumers, but they’re taking another crack at it with the US military as their new audience. On Monday, Luckey’s military tech company Anduril announced its AI-powered mixed reality system EagleEye, which will put hardware right into the helmets of Army soldiers and provide them with a heads-up display to view information in real-time.

“We don’t want to give service members a new tool—we’re giving them a new teammate,” Palmer Luckey, Anduril’s founder, said in a statement . “The idea of an AI partner embedded in your display has been imagined for decades. EagleEye is the first time it’s real.”

According to Anduril, EagleEye is a modular system that includes configurations for helmets, visors, and glas

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