The same goes for the augmented reality glasses that the US military is testing.

The United States Army’s Lancer Brigade showed a video that features a new night vision goggles equipment, with augmented reality, higher resolution and thermographic images that allow recognize targets in low visibility environments.

The Lancers Brigade shared the video on Twitter, where he appears performing maneuvers from the subjective gaze of his new Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular (ENVG-B) night vision goggles, as an example of the US military’s “efforts” to “modernize” its combat force, and with which offers images confused with those of a video game.

According to the United States Army Acquisition Support Center website, these are goggles designed specifically for soldiers. They are developed by L3 Warrior Sensor Systems and have the ability to “observe and maneuver in all kinds of weather conditions” with limited visibility and multiple lighting conditions. Plus, the glasses include augmented reality aspects to orient you without removing them, Popular Mechanics explains.

Defense and security writer Kyle Mizokami said it is an exercise in which they use glasses to “aim, confront and neutralize threats,” and that it took place on April 19 in the Lewis-McChord Joint Base, west of Washington. State.

The glasses have a higher resolution stereoscopic display for “faster target recognition”. Thus, it separates the objectives from the background and, thanks to a series of phosphor tubes, obtains a greater contrast than that obtained with the system using green phosphors, present in the rest of the night vision systems.

Depth perception and situational awareness are enhanced by a twin tube binocular system. Targets are better recognized with a fused thermal camera, and wireless connectivity helps reduce enemy exposure by no longer requiring the weapon to be shoulder-held.

The device can recognize human-sized targets at a distance of 150 meters with 80% probability and 300 meters with 50%. Although it reaches 300 meters (80%) and 550 meters (50%) in objective values. It has a battery life of over seven and a half hours of use and weighs less than 1.1 kilograms.

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