Army delays $22B augmented reality goggle program
I recently bought my children an Oculus Quest because ... nagging.  And I was utterly blown away.<p>I understand why every billionaire is betting on this in some way.<p>I would however put these goggles firmly in the camp of weapons like the tank that fires hundreds of missiles that fly off independently and destroy a hundred passing tanks.  There is such a distance from &quot;kinda works in demo&quot; to &quot;killing active enemy&quot; that it is barely worth thinking about for five years or more.<p>I would have to put other projects up top like<p>- when all the civilian engine development turns to batteries and electric, how the hell do we keep our planes trains and automobiles running.  Just how expensive will getting the gas get?<p>- Do ship defences really work? I would want to be pretty sure we test fire every kind of drone and missile at real ships and see if they shoot them down.<p>- In defiance of everything i wrote above, Apparently there is a cool targeting sight that puts a red dot on where the bullet will land based on distance, weather etc etc.  It &quot;apparently&quot; makes every squaddie a sniper and is going to roll out to US army real soon.  My question is once soldiers get out of a vehicle, how lethal is the battlefield  now? What&#x27;s the survival time measured in minutes under sniper and artillery fire? The last time the battlefield was insanely lethal people just dig trenches to even survive the day.