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Home / News / Technology News / Soon, US Army dogs could be wearing AR glasses
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Soon, US Army dogs could be wearing AR glasses

Soon, US Army dogs could be wearing AR glasses
Written by Shubham Sharma
Oct 09, 2020, 01:14 am 2 min read
Soon, US Army dogs could be wearing AR glasses

US Army dogs could soon be seen wearing AR glasses on the field. The technology is being developed in partnership with an American start-up with the ultimate goal of making the canines more effective in their ground jobs and reducing their direct dependence on human handlers. Here is all you need to know about it.

Current situation
Dogs need to work with human handlers

Military dogs are often used on the field for detecting threats, like explosives in a given area. They can sniff out the danger but are always required to work alongside human handlers who keep issuing commands. Now, this poses a threat as humans cannot sniff out a bomb and accidentally set it off, or they could be targeted if seen in the open.

Technology
This is where the AR glasses come in

To tackle these risks, Command Sight Inc. has developed the AR glasses as part of a project for the US Army Research Laboratory. The device is built on top of the glasses military dogs already wear to keep elements out of their eyes but have been enhanced with augmented reality technologies, which show them visual cues to work on their own on the field.

Details
Glasses also have speakers and cameras

Along with AR cues, the glasses in question also come with a camera and speaker. This enables the dogs' human handlers to sit afar, probably even out of sight, and issue voice-based directional commands to the canines scouting for threats while also monitoring what they are seeing at the same time. The system significantly boosts the on-field safety of the handlers.

Requirement
However, the technology still needs to evolve

The AR glasses work but the equipment is pretty complex which requires human handlers to be in close proximity. Also, the team is still studying the perception and response behavior of the canines when wearing the device. In the next two years, it hopes to utilize US military's funding to iron out the problems and have a production-level wireless version of glasses ready.

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Editor with over five years of experience in covering all things science, consumer tech, space tech, AI, infosec, and business. A commerce graduate from University of Lucknow. I have been handling Tech beat at NewsBytes since 2018.
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