Microsoft has been awarded another contract from the US Army for another order of the Xbox giant’s mixed reality glasses for soldiers in the battlefield. According to Bloomberg (via The Verge), Microsoft gave the Army a batch of new headsets recently, with soldiers testing them out and noticing significant improvements over the last iteration of the headset, specifically reducing nausea. Due to the improvements, the Army is ordering more units from Microsoft.
The headsets are known as Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), and are an evolution of the company’s HoloLens product. The first edition of the headset caused headaches and nausea, soldiers reported, but this newest batch apparently fixes some of those issues.
A spokesperson for the Army told Bloomberg that the updated IVAS headset “demonstrated improvements in reliability, low light sensor performance, and form factor.”