Eyes Forward to HUD Lenses

The American military, already one of the most tech-saavy industries in the US, is now looking at video games as inspiration for their newest project: mixed-reality contact lenses, transparent yet able to depict transmitted images. In their Request for Information (RFI), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) utilized first-person shooters as their primary illustrative point: “This information might be command-and-control information, not unlike information provided to players of first-person, shooter-type video games or synthetic entities and effects in a live training environment.” The US government seems quite fond of our dedication to first-person shooters, though these lenses are hardly the America’s Army style marketing campaign for enlistment.
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