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2021-04-01 Government Corruption

Microsoft gets contract worth up to $22 billion to outfit US Army with 120,000 AR headsets

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-01 04:09|| || Front Page|| [21 views ] Top

#1 Additional military R&D systems waste found here:

US Army enters final phase of development before kicking off Future Long Range Assault Aircraft program

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-01 06:51|| 2021-04-01 06:51|| Front Page Top

#2 A good movie idea would be a war movie where the deep state high jacks gaming competitions with actual real-time battle environments and has teenagers killing the enemy via gaming headsets.

Posted by Airandee 2021-04-01 07:20|| 2021-04-01 07:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Microsoft could finally be the king of gaming — if it spends $10 billion on Discord

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-01 09:21|| 2021-04-01 09:21|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Ender's Game?

Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-01 09:23|| 2021-04-01 09:23|| Front Page Top

#5 and here is the answer to 'why would a corporation support one side or the other politically'

Posted by Blossom Wittlesbach3196 2021-04-01 09:24|| 2021-04-01 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 A good movie idea ...

See Ender's Game

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-01 09:24|| 2021-04-01 09:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Microsoft snags hotly contested $10 billion defense contract, beating out Amazon

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-01 09:26|| 2021-04-01 09:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Microsoft employees speak out against the US military's HoloLens contract

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-01 09:30|| 2021-04-01 09:30|| Front Page Top

#9 'World's biggest' video game cheating operation that made £55million selling hacks for games such as Call Of Duty is smashed by Chinese police

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-01 10:11|| 2021-04-01 10:11|| Front Page Top

#10 What could go wrong.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-01 10:48|| 2021-04-01 10:48|| Front Page Top

#11 A good movie idea would be a war movie where the deep state high jacks gaming competitions with actual real-time battle environments and has teenagers killing the enemy via gaming headsets.

I'll go back even further:

Toys.

In the same grocery aisle:

The Last Starfighter.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-04-01 10:51|| 2021-04-01 10:51|| Front Page Top

#12 "Excuse me, it looks like you are attempting a base patrol. Would you like help?"

"FCK! you Clippy!"
-rattles of 2 mags of M4A1 Pulse-

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-04-01 10:56|| 2021-04-01 10:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Bringing a whole new meaning to the term "Blue Screen of Death".

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-04-01 11:49|| 2021-04-01 11:49|| Front Page Top

#14 And y'all thought $600 toilet seats were a waste of money.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-04-01 12:37|| 2021-04-01 12:37|| Front Page Top

#15 See through battle field smoke and smoke screens, night vision, see real time overhead drone and ground combat robotics on and above the battle field, share what others see from different points of the battle field, patch in to medics to allow them to assess wounds remotely, etc. etc. etc. etc....

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