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CTOnews.com Sept. 14-The U.S. Army has placed another order with Microsoft for advanced mixed reality glasses for combat, Bloomberg reported.

Microsoft sent 20 updated prototype glasses to the U.S. military in late July and tested them in August with two small teams of soldiers who praised the design improvements: mainly that they no longer felt sick and painful when wearing them.

Last year, Microsoft partnered with the U.S. Army to develop HoloLens-like mixed reality glasses called Integrated Vision Augmentation Systems (IVAS), but reports in early 2022 showed that these glasses caused headaches, nausea and eye strain in soldiers in tests. The glasses in question are part of a 5000-set order the Army began receiving in September 2022.

David Patterson, a spokesman for the U.S. military, said the new glasses, now available in version 1.2,"have been improved in reliability, low-light sensor performance and form factor size." The Army awarded Microsoft another contract for the new system on Sept. 5 and examined whether the company could expand production.

The Army had asked Congress for funding to buy 6900 glasses from Microsoft, but was turned down earlier this year. Instead, Congress reduced the $400 million requested by the Army to just $40 million to improve the system. The Army provided Microsoft with the funding, plus an additional $125 million for continued development.

The U.S. Army plans to spend up to $21.9 billion on the project, and the glasses will be tested by the Army for combat use in 2025. Microsoft's HoloLens technology continues to exist in these special military glasses, and with the layoffs affecting the relevant teams in January, the use cases of these glasses in the home and workplace seem to have disappeared.

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