Anduril EagleEye

Anduril EagleEye
Basic Info
VR/AR	Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality
Type	head-mounted display
Subtype	Standalone AR
Platform	Lattice, Soldier Borne Mission Command
Creator	Anduril Industries
Developer	Anduril Industries
Manufacturer	Anduril Industries, with Gentex Corporation (helmet and communications architecture) and Meta Platforms (waveguide and display technology)
Announcement Date	13 October 2025
Release Date	Not released as a product; Anduril-owned phase-one SBMC systems were provided to the U.S. Army for testing in 2026, and 170 phase-two prototypes are planned, with testing expected to begin in early 2027
Price	Not announced (in October 2025 Luckey said Anduril expected to come in at about half of the US$50,000 to $80,000 per unit the Army had initially expected to pay under IVAS)
Website	https://www.anduril.com/eagleeye
Versions	Helmet, visor and glasses configurations; full-face ballistic variant; SBMC glasses variant
Requires	Lattice
Predecessor	IVAS
System
Operating System	Lattice OS
Chipset	Qualcomm XR2 Gen 3 (listed by Anduril as "Qualcomm XR2Gen3")
Display
Display	Optically transparent daytime HUD and digital night-vision HUD; Meta waveguide and display technology
Resolution	1,400 pixels per eye (glasses); four 4K micro-OLED ("uOLED") displays (night-vision module), according to Anduril
Refresh Rate	90 Hz (night-vision module, according to Anduril)
Image
Field of View	200 degrees horizontal by 90 degrees vertical (night-vision module, Anduril product page); over 200 degrees wide and over 100 degrees tall (full-face variant, Luckey, October 2025)
Horizontal FoV	200 degrees (night-vision module, Anduril); over 200 degrees (full-face variant, Luckey)
Vertical FoV	90 degrees (night-vision module, Anduril); over 100 degrees (full-face variant, Luckey)
Optics
Optics	Transparent AR glasses, visor HUDs and full-face reprojection shield; Meta waveguide technology
Ocularity	Binocular
Passthrough	Optical see-through AR (glasses/visor) and video passthrough MR (full-face)
Tracking
Tracking	Inside-out tracking, 6DOF
Base Stations	No
Eye Tracking	Yes (listed by Anduril among the biometric sensors)
Rotational Tracking	Yes
Positional Tracking	Yes
Audio
Audio	Integrated hearing protection (30 dB NRR with active noise cancellation, according to Anduril) and spatial audio communications
Microphone	Eight-microphone array for gunshot and drone detection and localization (according to Anduril)
Camera	Four 9 MP low-light cameras and two SXGA long-wave infrared cameras (night-vision module) and a 4K point-of-view camera (glasses), according to Anduril; rear- and flank-view sensors; night vision and low-light thermal imaging in the SBMC phase-one sensor bar
Connectivity
Connectivity	Lattice mesh networking, radio; Anduril lists Starlink, Wi-Fi and Lattice node connectivity
Wireless Video	Yes
WiFi	Yes
Power	Battery and edge compute in a ballistic chest plate ("computer armor"); helmet-integrated power and compute
Device
Weight	SBMC glasses about 80 g (2.8 oz) (October 2025); full HUD about 110 g according to Anduril (August 2026); glasses 105-115 g and 3.04 lb under "Comfort" on Anduril's product page
Material	Ballistic helmet shell (NIJ IIA level, with ballistic ear protection and ACH fragmentation protection, according to Anduril); rifle- and fragment-rated full-face visor (selected variant, design goal)
Color	Military camouflage
Sensors	Helmet cameras, rear- and flank-view sensors, radio-frequency detection, laser detection, biometrics (heart rate, pulse oximetry, body temperature, blast sensor, IMU, eye tracking), day, night and thermal imaging
Input	Controller with a dial and press input (SBMC redesign); voice and eye-based commands under development
Compliance	ITAR compliant, Military standards

Anduril EagleEye (stylized EagleEye and sometimes written Eagle Eye) is a modular, AI-enabled mixed reality (MR) and augmented reality (AR) head-mounted display and helmet system for military use, developed by Anduril Industries, the American defense technology company founded by Palmer Luckey. Anduril unveiled it on 13 October 2025 at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. It is not a commercial product and has no public price. As of October 2026, Anduril's version for the U.S. Army's Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) program is still in prototyping: Anduril provided phase-one systems for Army testing in 2026 and plans to deliver 170 redesigned phase-two prototypes, with testing expected to begin in late January or early February 2027.

Anduril describes EagleEye as a "family of systems" in helmet, visor and glasses configurations that combines mission planning, perception and control of unmanned assets. It is built around Anduril's Lattice AI software platform, which fuses sensor data from across the battlefield into a single mixed reality picture, and Anduril presents it as an AI "teammate" for the wearer. Anduril pitched it as a follow-on to the Army's Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), which was based on Microsoft HoloLens technology, and as the hardware for the SBMC effort. Its display hardware draws on Anduril's partnership with Meta Platforms, which supplies waveguide and display technology, and Anduril's product page lists a "Qualcomm XR2Gen3" processor.

Reviewed 14 October 2026. Reopened every cited source, including Anduril releases and product page, and checked dates, figures, quotes and the October 2026 prototyping status. About review dates.

History and development

Origins at Anduril

Palmer Luckey, best known as the creator of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, founded Anduril Industries in 2017 to apply commercial-style development and artificial intelligence to defense systems. According to Luckey, tactical augmented reality displays were among the first things Anduril pitched to investors. At a press briefing on 8 October 2025 he said his investors at the time told him not to "put all our eggs in that basket", and TechCrunch reported that investors persuaded the team to focus on software such as Lattice instead. The Verge wrote that Anduril had been developing EagleEye since its inception. According to Defense Daily, Luckey has said Anduril invested "hundreds of millions" in EagleEye and called it "one of the very first things we started investing in". Anduril calls it "independently researched and developed".

In September 2024, Anduril announced a collaboration with Microsoft that included initial integration of Lattice into the IVAS ecosystem. On 11 February 2025, Microsoft and Anduril announced that, pending Department of Defense approval, Anduril would assume oversight of production, future hardware and software development, and delivery timelines for IVAS, with Microsoft Azure becoming Anduril's preferred cloud for IVAS work. According to a Congressional Research Service summary, the Army reportedly approved the contract novation from Microsoft to Anduril on 10 April 2025, and in March 2025 the IVAS follow-on, previously called IVAS Next, was renamed Soldier Borne Mission Command. This marked a change from the Microsoft HoloLens 2-based solution, whose early versions were reported to cause headaches, eyestrain and nausea. In an interview with former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan in February 2025, Luckey revealed the name EagleEye for Anduril's helmet and described it as an "integrated ballistic shell" rather than a strap-on device for existing helmets, in contrast with the HoloLens-based IVAS.

Partnership with Meta and other industry partners

On 29 May 2025, Anduril and Meta Platforms announced a partnership to "design, build, and field a range of integrated XR products" for U.S. service members. Anduril said the effort was funded through private capital and would use components and technology originally built for commercial use. The announcement said the two companies had already jointly submitted a white paper for SBMC Next. UploadVR reported that EagleEye was the partnership's first product and that Luckey told journalist Ashlee Vance the partnership had been in the works for almost a year. In Anduril's announcement, Luckey said: "My mission has long been to turn warfighters into technomancers, and the products we are building with Meta do just that."

Meta contributes "waveguide and display technology" to EagleEye, according to Luckey, who said the partnership also gave him access to Meta's virtual reality intellectual property, including work he did at Oculus: "I now have all my toys back." He said the supply chain for this part of Meta's technology is outside China and that "a lot of it is US-based". The Verge described EagleEye as the first hardware to come out of the Meta partnership, and a reunion of sorts for Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg after Meta bought Oculus in 2014 and fired Luckey three years later.

Anduril names Meta, OSI, Qualcomm Technologies and Gentex Corporation as commercial partners that "have invested billions in augmented reality, rugged eyewear, compute, sensing, and ballistic helmets". Its EagleEye product page lists Meta, Oakley Standard Issue, Qualcomm and Gentex as partners. Other reporting identifies the following roles:

Partner	Contribution
Meta Platforms	Waveguide and display technology; access to Meta's VR intellectual property
Qualcomm (Qualcomm Technologies)	Chips for display and processing
Gentex Corporation, including its Ops-Core brand	Head protection and communications architecture for the modular platform
Oakley (Standard Issue)	AR glasses form factor for the SBMC variant
OSI	Named by Anduril as a partner without a stated role

Gentex, a long-standing U.S. supplier of ballistic helmets and communications gear, describes EagleEye as "a next-generation, AI-enabled integrated family of warfighter systems" that brings mission command, situational awareness and survivability into the warfighter's headborne system. Luckey told reporters in October 2025 that more partners, "primarily consumer and commercial-focused augmented reality companies", would be announced over the following year.

AUSA 2025 unveiling and SBMC prototype contract

On 8 September 2025, Anduril announced a US$159 million Army contract for an initial prototyping period to develop a night vision and mixed reality system for SBMC. The company said the helmet-mounted system would fuse day, night and thermal imagery with real-time battlefield data in a single display. The startup Rivet received a separate US$195 million contract for an 18-month rapid prototyping sprint that included 470 "production representative" devices, with a design that resembles glasses. At the time of the AUSA reveal, Anduril said it planned to deliver close to 100 units in the April to June 2026 timeframe. UploadVR reported that Luckey told DefenseScoop the first "scaled delivery" of Anduril's SBMC system should happen in 2027.

EagleEye was formally unveiled at AUSA 2025 on 13 October 2025, where Anduril displayed two of its variants at its booth. Media coverage from outlets such as Defense One, New Atlas, The Verge and Business Insider described EagleEye as an AI-powered mixed reality headset and helmet system that aims to reduce soldier load while expanding awareness on the battlefield. DefenseScoop reported that the Army had initially expected to pay US$50,000 to $80,000 per unit under IVAS; Luckey said Anduril expected "to be coming in at half of that" and that the system is "going to get cheaper and cheaper over time". According to DefenseScoop, some Army officials had already tested EagleEye prototypes, including for drone command and control and launching loitering munitions.

2026 testing and SBMC redesign

In November 2025, Anduril's Australian subsidiary showed EagleEye at the MilCIS 2025 exhibition in Canberra. Anduril Australia chief executive David Goodrich told Janes that the U.S. Army would test EagleEye in 2026.

In May 2026, MIT Technology Review reported that Anduril vice president Quay Barnett said early prototypes had worked, but that no versions were yet ready for Army testing at scale; component parts had begun arriving in March 2026, and military contracting rules required new supply chains that avoid Chinese companies. The same article distinguished two projects: the Army SBMC prototypes, which it described as AR glasses developed with Meta that attach to existing military helmets and use a separate battery pack, and EagleEye, which it described as a self-funded Anduril helmet and headset that integrates the technology into the helmet and that the military had not requested. Anduril's own October 2025 materials, by contrast, presented the SBMC design as the "primary variant" of the EagleEye family.

At SOF Week in Tampa, Florida, in May 2026, Anduril's Grant Hartanov told Task & Purpose that the headset had daytime and nighttime settings and a 90-degree field of view, that its battery sat in a ballistic chest plate rather than the helmet, and that EagleEye would go to special operators first. "We eventually hope the U.S. Army adopts EagleEye," he said.

On 17 August 2026, Barnett, Anduril's general manager of warfighter systems, told reporters the company was "moving from phase one to phase two" of its SBMC prototyping. About two weeks earlier, phase-one systems had been tested with the 75th Ranger Regiment at Anduril's test site in Seattle. Anduril had provided "low hundreds" of phase-one systems, but later clarified that they remain Anduril-owned and were not formal contractual deliveries. The phase-one kit consisted of glasses developed with Meta and Oakley's Standard Issue brand, a sensor bar with night vision, low-light thermal and other imaging that lowers over the glasses at night, an edge compute device, a battery and a controller. Barnett said phase one validated the system, architecture and HUD, but was not "the right solution for nighttime use".

The Army accepted an engineering change proposal for a redesigned phase-two system with a digital interface. Barnett described "4K in-eye displays" that expand the field of view by about 70 percent over current night vision systems and allow daytime-style overlays at night, a form factor closer to the eye, and new camera systems. The controller's buttons were replaced with a dial and press input; Barnett said reaching deep menus and settings went from "21 button clicks down into two". Anduril also reworked the retention system with Oakley, and Barnett said the full HUD weighs about 110 grams. An Anduril spokesperson said the company will deliver 170 phase-two prototypes, which Anduril calls "the formal deliverable", with testing expected to begin in late January or early February 2027. Anduril said it had built capacity to produce thousands of SBMC systems and was funding voice activation, additional sensors and body-worn frontier AI models as internal research. Inside Defense reported that Anduril expected to deliver its first SBMC hardware prototypes in early 2027. DefenseScoop wrote that a downselect and production award could come in fiscal 2028.

Hardware and design

Overall architecture

EagleEye is designed as a helmet-native mixed reality platform rather than a detachable goggle or visor strapped onto an existing helmet shell. Luckey has described it as an "integrated ballistic shell" that combines hearing protection, hearing augmentation, eye protection and visual augmentation. Anduril states that EagleEye provides "beyond-full-cut ballistic protection and blast wave mitigation in an ultralightweight shell designed for long wear".

Unlike strap-on IVAS designs, which Luckey argued cause imbalance, neck strain and snag hazards, EagleEye places computing, power and sensors in the helmet and in a ballistic chest plate. Breaking Defense reported that the chest plate, still in design in October 2025, would house the computer, battery and radio, and that Luckey acknowledged the battery and armor were not individually the best in the world but argued that the integrated system performs better. Soldier Systems Daily described three physical components: the heads-up display glasses, a helmet that integrates power, cooling, compute and biometrics into a ballistic shell, and "computer armor" that combines a battery and edge processing in a hard armor plate. It noted that Anduril had not, at that time, released weights, armor areal density or ballistic performance data. Gentex provides the underlying head protection and communications architecture, while Anduril adds HUD hardware, distributed sensing and mission command software.

Initial Army prototypes were to use the existing Integrated Head Protection System (IHPS) helmet. Luckey said that helmet is not ideal for a mixed reality display because its rotational slip makes the display hard to keep in place, so Anduril was designing a new helmet.

Form factors and variants

Anduril describes EagleEye as a "family of systems" rather than a single headset, with helmet, visor and glasses configurations. In October 2025 the company said it was developing four headset variants, two of which were shown at AUSA 2025:

• A set of ballistic AR glasses based on Oakley's standard-issue glasses, weighing about 80 g (2.8 oz), that attach to the helmet so that processing and battery packs sit on the helmet rather than in front of the user's eyes. Luckey called this the primary variant because it has the clearest path to deployment, at a scale of what he expected to be hundreds of thousands of units; lighter models are aimed at roles such as logistics.
• A fully sealed full-face ballistic helmet, designed in-house, with a visor that is not optically transparent and a night-focused mixed reality reprojection system. Anduril intends the visor to be rifle- and fragment-rated, and Luckey said the sealed design should also give better protection against traumatic brain injury.
• Two further variants. Luckey declined to give details, saying they are being developed with a non-Army customer and that their designs are "a little bit more in flux"; he said EagleEye versions differ in their level of ballistic protection and in a focus on day or night capability.

Luckey has said the company aims for "90-percent commonality" across users, with sensors clipping on as needed; as an example, an explosive ordnance disposal technician could add a hyperspectral camera. He told Defense Daily that different users, such as rotary-wing pilots, door-breaching soldiers and logisticians, need different systems.

Displays and optics

EagleEye includes "both an optically transparent daytime HUD and a digital night-vision HUD, each purpose-built for its environment". UploadVR described the two display modules shown in 2025:

• Transparent AR module: for daytime operations, resembling thick ballistic sunglasses with see-through displays that overlay digital symbology on the real world.
• Passthrough MR module: a VR-style passthrough mixed reality module for nighttime operations that extends the protective shell into a full-face headset.

Meta provides the waveguide and display technology used in the optical modules, while Anduril integrates this hardware with its own HUD and MR software. UploadVR describes Anduril concept footage showing a persistent compass, a minimap, friendly assets marked in blue and enemy assets in red, and bounding boxes around people that show a skeletal pose when they are hidden behind real-world geometry.

Luckey said the full-face variant has a field of view over 200 degrees wide and over 100 degrees tall, describing it as a reprojection system that is not optically transparent, similar to a night vision passthrough system. New Atlas gives the same figures for the stitched 3D view built from helmet cameras and other feeds. These are company figures, not independent measurements. In May 2026 Anduril's Grant Hartanov cited a 90-degree field of view for the headset shown at SOF Week. For the phase-two SBMC design, Barnett described "4K in-eye displays" and a field of view about 70 percent wider than current night vision systems. Anduril's EagleEye product page, updated in August 2026, lists for its night-vision module four 4K micro-OLED ("uOLED") displays, a 90 Hz refresh rate and a 200-degree horizontal by 90-degree vertical field of view, and for its glasses 1,400 pixels per eye and a weight of 105 to 115 g. These are manufacturer figures; Anduril does not state on that page which configurations they apply to beyond the module headings.

Sensors, audio and perception

EagleEye integrates optical, acoustic and radio-frequency sensors into the helmet shell and display modules. New Atlas reports that panoramic helmet cameras and feeds from other soldiers, drones and sensor platforms are combined into a three-dimensional picture of the area over 200 degrees wide and over 100 degrees tall. Anduril says rear- and flank-view sensors "expand awareness without distraction"; Interesting Engineering described sensors on the rear and sides as giving operators a 360-degree view.

The helmet's ear flaps protect hearing and augment it so the wearer can hear speech and sounds from farther away, and they swing open when not in use. According to New Atlas, the system detects gunshots and marks their source on the display. Anduril says spatial audio and radio frequency (RF) detection alert operators "to hidden or immediate threats".

Beyond visual and acoustic inputs, reported sensing includes:

• RF detection that locates radio signals and triangulates their source
• Detection of lasers aimed at the wearer
• Biometrics integrated into the helmet; Anduril lists heart rate, pulse oximetry, body temperature, a blast sensor, a head-motion IMU and eye tracking
• An eight-microphone array for gunshot and drone detection and localization, according to Anduril
• Fused day, night and thermal imagery, and in the 2026 SBMC kit a sensor bar with night vision and low-light thermal imaging

New Atlas also reports that the system tracks where the wearer's rifle points and can use other platforms' feeds to show hidden hostiles behind obstacles. Luckey told DefenseScoop that some prototypes can integrate with Army rifles to aid aiming.

Computing, power and connectivity

The EagleEye system uses helmet-integrated compute and a chest-mounted plate that combines ballistic protection with batteries, radios and processing hardware in order to centralize weight and cabling. Anduril says the design "keeps sensors aligned with the warfighter's center of gravity". Anduril works with Qualcomm on the display engine and processing; its EagleEye product page lists a "Qualcomm XR2Gen3" processor with "onboard agentic AI".

EagleEye is coupled with Anduril's Lattice mesh network. Anduril describes Lattice as "an AI software platform that turns thousands of data streams into a real-time, 3D command and control center", ingesting data from drones, ground vehicles and other sensors. According to Anduril, Lattice mesh networking keeps command and control working in "denied, degraded, intermittent, or limited (DDIL) environments". In its September 2025 SBMC announcement, Anduril said it had cut over-the-air software update times by 99 percent, from two days to 15 minutes; New Atlas repeated it as a company claim.

Variants

Variant	Form factor	Display type	Primary role	Protection level	Notes	Sources
SBMC glasses (primary variant)	Ballistic AR glasses based on Oakley standard-issue glasses, attached to the helmet	Optically transparent daytime AR HUD	Army SBMC program; logistics and other roles where full-face protection is not needed	Ballistic glasses with a separate helmet shell	About 80 g (2.8 oz); processing and battery on the helmet
Full-face ballistic helmet	Fully sealed helmet with an in-house designed full-face visor	Opaque, night-focused mixed reality reprojection	Frontline soldiers	Rifle- and fragment-rated full-face visor (design goal)	Claimed field of view over 200 degrees wide and over 100 degrees tall
Two undisclosed variants	Not disclosed	Not disclosed	Developed with a non-Army customer	Not disclosed	Designs described by Luckey as "a little bit more in flux" in October 2025
SBMC phase one (2026)	Glasses, sensor bar, edge compute device, battery and controller	Glasses developed with Meta and Oakley Standard Issue; sensor bar lowers over the glasses at night	Army testing, including with the 75th Ranger Regiment	Not stated	"Low hundreds" of Anduril-owned systems; not formal contractual deliveries
SBMC phase two (2027)	Redesigned system with a digital interface, closer to the eye	"4K in-eye displays"; digital night vision with daytime-style overlays	Formal SBMC prototype deliverable	Not stated	170 prototypes planned; testing expected to begin late January or early February 2027

Software and capabilities

Mission command and 3D sand table

At the core of EagleEye's software is Anduril's Lattice platform, which fuses real-time data from distributed sensors into a shared mixed reality operating picture. Army Technology describes EagleEye as combining mission planning, battlefield perception and unmanned asset control in one platform that builds on the SBMC and SBMC-A programs.

Anduril says EagleEye "enables mission command through a high-resolution, collaborative 3D sand table". Operators can rehearse missions, coordinate movements and integrate live video feeds pinned to terrain, creating a shared operational picture before and during a mission. Army Recognition describes the planning board as supporting preparation and replay of maneuvers.

Mixed reality HUD and situational awareness

In normal use, EagleEye's heads-up display superimposes digital data onto the wearer's view. Anduril material and concept footage show:

• Maps and navigation cues, mission briefings and orders
• Blue force tracking that shows the precise location of teammates in world space, such as their position within a building or on a specific floor
• Friendly assets in blue and detected enemy assets in red
• A persistent compass and minimap
• Bounding boxes around people, with a skeletal pose shown when they are occluded

According to UploadVR, the tracking data in these mockups comes from Anduril's Lattice network rather than from the headset's own sensors. Because the headset is integrated with external platforms, EagleEye can display picture-in-picture feeds, for example from a drone overhead, with metadata such as heading and altitude, alongside the local view. The mockups also show switching between sensor views such as low light and thermal.

AI assistance and "digital teammate" concept

Anduril presents EagleEye as an AI-powered "teammate" rather than a tool. At launch, Luckey said Anduril was not giving service members "a new tool" but "a new teammate", adding: "The idea of an AI partner embedded in your display has been imagined for decades. EagleEye is the first time it's real." In February 2025, Luckey claimed EagleEye would be "by far the best AR/VR/MR vision augmentation system that has ever been built" in resolution, field of view, graphics and sensors; these are company statements, not independently verified measurements.

Luckey said Anduril's first trial, run with Lattice on HoloLens-based IVAS headsets, warned soldiers of incoming drones and showed them how to reach safety. He has also described digital target marking that could replace lasers or smoke and be shared with squadmates, Lattice monitoring many threats at once and offering predictive guidance, and soldiers asking multimodal AI questions about what they see.

MIT Technology Review reported in May 2026 that the Anduril and Meta concept includes plain-language voice commands, such as requesting an evacuation or planning a route around restricted areas, with large language models converting speech into commands; Anduril was testing Google's Gemini, Meta's Llama and Anthropic's Claude for this. In the multi-step tasks it described, a drone could survey an area and the system could recommend actions such as a strike, which would still need chain-of-command approval, and eye movements and taps could replace speech.

Control of unmanned systems and fires

Anduril says EagleEye "consolidates soldier networking and command tools into a body-worn system". Through it, operators can:

• Task unmanned aerial systems
• Call for fires
• Control robotic teammates while staying mobile

UploadVR's report on Anduril's interface mockups shows soldiers marking objectives in mixed reality to call in drone strikes, and watching live feeds from unmanned aircraft. New Atlas describes feeds from multiple platforms being combined so that soldiers can see hostiles hidden behind obstacles. Under the related SBMC-A software program, Anduril said drones had been tasked directly from more than three kilometers away through a line-of-sight radio link to a Lattice-integrated IVAS 1.2 headset, without a dedicated drone pilot.

Programs, deployment and testing

Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC)

Anduril's EagleEye-based SBMC system is one of the hardware designs in the U.S. Army's SBMC program, the renamed IVAS Next effort that followed Anduril's takeover of the original HoloLens-based contract from Microsoft. Anduril and Rivet received SBMC prototyping contracts in September 2025, and Elbit Systems of America was also selected for the program. The Congressional Research Service describes the Anduril and Rivet contracts as reportedly covering an 18-month rapid prototyping sprint. MIT Technology Review wrote in May 2026 that the Army was not expected to move its top choice into production until 2028, if it picked one at all.

The September 2025 award tasks Anduril with developing a helmet-mounted system that unites night vision with augmented reality overlays, within a modular component framework that lets soldiers select a loadout for their mission. The originally planned delivery of close to 100 units in the second quarter of 2026 gave way to the two-phase schedule described above, with Anduril-owned phase-one systems tested in 2026 and 170 phase-two prototypes to follow.

SBMC-Architecture (SBMC-A)

Anduril is the only contractor on SBMC-Architecture (SBMC-A), the software backbone built on its Lattice system. According to Anduril, SBMC-A provides "the open software platform" that integrates new helmet-mounted displays and edge compute hardware, and is led by Anduril with partners including Palantir Technologies, L3Harris Technologies, Persistent Systems, Sierra Nevada Company, DTC, Maxar Intelligence and Kägwerks. Anduril said it had used IVAS 1.2 headsets as surrogates in multiple field tests, drawing on over 260,000 hours of soldier input from the IVAS program, and that SBMC-A had gone through four soldier exercises. Defense Daily describes SBMC-A as the rebranded original IVAS effort, now focused on software and integration rather than headsets.

Relationship to IVAS and previous MR headsets

The EagleEye program sits in the broader context of the U.S. Army's IVAS initiative. In November 2018 the Army awarded Microsoft an agreement worth up to US$22 billion over 10 years for HoloLens-based IVAS goggles. Those devices faced problems: Business Insider cites an internal Army report that the goggles failed most of a military test and that their glow could be seen from hundreds of meters away, and reports that some soldiers experienced nausea and headaches. The Congressional Research Service notes reports of headaches, eyestrain and nausea with early versions, and that the redesigned IVAS 1.2 HUD reduced the field of view from 70 to 60 degrees. It also cites a July 2026 GAO assessment that none of the roughly 10,000 developed IVAS units will be fielded.

Anduril and its partners position EagleEye as a helmet-native system designed from the outset for military use, with emphasis on balance, protection and integration with head protection and communications gear. Luckey said Anduril had solved the cybersickness problems that affected IVAS, including latency, reprojection and calibration issues. As of October 2026, EagleEye remains in prototyping, and soldier field trials under SBMC are expected to inform any production decision.

International interest

Anduril Australia presented EagleEye at MilCIS 2025 in Canberra in November 2025. Its chief executive, David Goodrich, said the system could be considered for two Australian Defence Force programs, Land 300 (close combat capabilities) and Land 4140 (communications and decision-making in contested environments). Barnett told MIT Technology Review that Anduril would also sell to foreign militaries.

Technical specifications

The following values are as stated by Anduril on its EagleEye product page (updated August 2026) or reported from company briefings. They are manufacturer figures, not independent measurements, and Anduril does not state which configuration each product-page figure applies to beyond its module headings.

Specification	Details
Field of view	200 degrees horizontal by 90 degrees vertical (night-vision module); over 200 degrees wide and over 100 degrees tall (full-face variant, Luckey, October 2025); 90 degrees (headset shown at SOF Week, May 2026); phase-two SBMC design about 70 percent wider than current night vision
Display types	Optically transparent daytime HUD and digital night-vision HUD
Display technology	Meta waveguide and display technology; "4K in-eye displays" (phase-two SBMC design); four 4K micro-OLED ("uOLED") displays with "100.000:1" contrast (night-vision module)
Resolution	1,400 pixels per eye (glasses)
Refresh rate	90 Hz (night-vision module)
Cameras	Four 9 MP low-light cameras and two SXGA long-wave infrared cameras (night-vision module); 4K point-of-view camera (glasses); optical-zoom EO and LWIR cameras for threat detection at 1 km
Weight	About 80 g (2.8 oz) for the SBMC glasses (October 2025); full HUD about 110 g (August 2026); glasses 105-115 g, and 3.04 lb listed under "Comfort"
Power	Battery in a ballistic chest plate
Protection	"Beyond-full-cut ballistic protection and blast wave mitigation"; NIJ IIA level ballistic shell, ballistic ear protection, ACH fragmentation protection; glasses frame and lenses rated to MIL-PRF-32432A/APEL with a notch filter for laser protection
Networking	Lattice mesh networking for DDIL environments; Starlink, Wi-Fi and Lattice node connectivity listed
Processor	Qualcomm XR2 Gen 3 (listed as "Qualcomm XR2Gen3"), with "onboard agentic AI"
Audio	Spatial audio; ear flaps with hearing protection and augmentation; 30 dB NRR with active noise cancellation; eight-microphone array for gunshot and drone detection and localization
Sensors	Rear- and flank-view sensors, RF detection; laser and gunshot detection; day, night and thermal imagery; biometrics (heart rate, pulse oximetry, body temperature, blast sensor, IMU, eye tracking); MGPS, UWB and SWIR for friendly tracking
Price	Not announced; Anduril expected about half the US$50,000 to $80,000 per-unit IVAS estimate (October 2025)

Applications

Anduril groups EagleEye's capabilities into mission planning, enhanced perception, survivability and edge connectivity. SBMC and SBMC-A together are meant to give soldiers "integrated situational awareness, mission planning, and training tools".

Combat operations

• Threat detection and tracking, including beyond line of sight
• Situational awareness through sensor fusion
• Control of unmanned systems and robotic teammates
• Calls for fires
• Blue force tracking in 3D space

Mission planning

• Collaborative 3D sand table
• Terrain visualization with live video pinned to terrain
• Mission rehearsal
• Shared operational picture before and during missions

Other users

Anduril has said it plans to pursue customers beyond the Army, such as firefighters, first responders and possibly Department of Homeland Security components including the Coast Guard and Border Patrol, with the Army first. Luckey has said selling EagleEye to civilians would risk it reaching hostile forces, but that he is open to selling a lighter, Oakley-style Lattice display to law enforcement.

Future development

Luckey has described EagleEye as "less one product" and "more a platform that other people can build products on top of". He said he hopes that in about 10 years "dozens of different providers" will make EagleEye-compatible headsets that share a common architecture, data format, interconnect and power and data standards. He also said the SBMC program could eventually cover headset requirements for other Army roles. Luckey believes consumer-industry commoditization could eventually bring costs to the low thousands of dollars per unit, and said: "I strongly believe you are going to see augmented reality on every soldier's head before you see it on every consumer's head."

Reception and commentary

Early media coverage framed EagleEye as part of a wave of Silicon Valley-style defense technology entering military programs. New Atlas described the system as giving soldiers "super senses" and presented its software update figure as a company claim. Business Insider quoted Anduril's description of "turning soldiers into superheroes" with a suite of vision products.

The Verge highlighted EagleEye as the first hardware product from Anduril's partnership with Meta and as a reunion of sorts between Luckey and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg after their earlier split over Oculus. TechCrunch framed the launch as Luckey returning to his VR roots. UploadVR and other XR outlets covered EagleEye's design and interface mockups, its claimed field of view, multi-sensor fusion and AI assistance, as well as Luckey's position on civilian and law enforcement sales.

Soldier Systems Daily argued that similar combinations of battery, processing and armor had been tried before without success because of materials challenges and operational drawbacks. In MIT Technology Review, Jonathan Wong, a former Marine and RAND senior policy researcher, warned that soldiers already face information overload and would reject the system if it demanded too much attention, and that years of field testing may be needed to judge its usefulness. "It's a high bar," he said. The article also noted that AI-driven threat identification and strike recommendations carry serious risks of error.

As of October 2026, most published information about EagleEye's performance comes from Anduril, its partners and demonstrations for media and officials. Testing under SBMC is expected to show whether EagleEye can avoid the comfort and reliability problems that affected earlier military mixed reality headsets.

See also

• Head-mounted display
• Integrated Visual Augmentation System
• Soldier Borne Mission Command
• Palmer Luckey
• Anduril Industries
• Microsoft HoloLens
• Microsoft HoloLens 2
• Meta Platforms