There are no documented long-term eye development impacts of AR and/or VR headgear users, however the symptoms the soldiers observed suggest some short-term negative effects. Microsoft's AR goggles could kill army soldiers.
Based on a Defense Department assessment acquired by Bloomberg and Business Insider, Microsoft Corp.'s augmented reality headsets are rendering US Army soldiers sick.
The 79-page DoD document on the Army's test results of Microsoft HoloLens mixed reality headsets remains to be made public, but a summary provided by Nickolas Guertin, director of the Defense Department's Operation Test and Evaluation, deduced that 80% of soldiers who utilized the goggles observed "mission-affecting physical impairments," like headaches, eyestrain, and nausea.
According to one of the testers, "the devices would have gotten us killed" on a modern battleground.
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