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Luckey has been teasing EagleEye for quite some time and has now snagged one of two development contracts with the Army. The company, he explained, is actually working on four EagleEye variants, all in various stages of development. That includes an 80g (2.8 oz) Oakley standard issue glasses design, as well as a ballistic, full-face shield option that is being designed in-house.
Two such EagleEye variants will be on display for the first time this week at the Association of the US Army’s annual conference, along with a new company product line — body armor.
“EagleEye is less one product, and it’s more a platform that other people can build products on top of,” he said, explaining that the lighter glasses could be used by soldiers working in logistics roles, while the full-face shield could be better suited for soldiers on the frontlines.
“The full-face ballistic shield fully encapsulates your head to protect primarily [from] blast force,” Luckey said. “Now, that’s a much wider field display. It’s over 200-degrees wide and over 100-degrees tall. It’s a very different display system that’s more like a night vision pass through system. It’s not optically transparent. It’s a full reprojection system.” In September, the Army tapped Anduril and the startup firm Rivet to proceed with the IVAS redo for the hardware component of the system.
Based on photos on its website, Rivet’s design closely resembles glasses. At the time of the contract award, Rivet CEO David Marra said his company signed a $195 million contract with the Army that will cover an 18-month rapid prototyping sprint. Those dollars, he said, will be used to continue engineering and testing work, and the production of 470 “production representative” devices.
Anduril, meanwhile, said it received a $159 million contract for initial prototyping, with plans to begin delivering close to 100 units in the April-June 2026 timeframe.
