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Mark Zuckerberg finally found a use for his metaverse – war
It used to be that many in Silicon Valley shunned developing killer apps for the Pentagon.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s deal with Anduril offers a lifeline to its ailing Reality Labs business. The unit has lost more than US$70 billion since the start of 2019.
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Dave Lee
I can’t think of any other deal that more encapsulates how Silicon Valley has changed in the past couple of years than the one announced on May 29 in a press release.
Anduril and Meta are partnering to design, build and field a range of integrated extended reality products that provide war fighters with enhanced perception and enable intuitive control of autonomous platforms on the battlefield.
