So this is where Land Warrior, Nett Warrior is going :Head-mounted devices and activation of Wi-Fi and cellular capabilities are set to equip the Nett Warrior program.

I had a conversation with eMagin's Bruce Ridley a few years ago at Soldier Technology. This was at the time it was apparent that Land Warrior as configured was not going to be fielded. The cost was to great, the kit too clumsy, the monocular display had all the drawbacks of a closed eyebox, see famous picture of Soldier trying desperately to read his map in the sun with one eye slammed shut and the other squinting into the display. Same problem Golden-I has and always will have with it's similar design.  So I asked Bruce, "What's up with Nett Warrior" and he replied to my surprise soldiers hate it. The "hate it" part had to do with the size of the chest worn computer and the difficulty of either reading a wrist worn PDA or trying to handle a cell phone while wearing gloves, dealing with other pieces of kit etc. Not to mention the same difficulty of reading the display in a high light situation. Not to mention the risk of giving away one's position by turning on a bright cell phone or similar. Long story short he said "No more Nett Warrior." The way he said it, it said to me the whole program is being phased out but...not so fast. With the advent of Google Glass and ODG X6 and similar it is now obvious that this See-Through A/R capability was always what the military was pushing for.  DARPA came up with the concept initally, they called it Pixnet. THIS is what's next.  It's going to look like X6 or will be X6, the reason DOD bought 500 pair a couple of weeks ago.

“So we’re very hopeful with a wearable, head-mounted technology, and the see-through display technology now becoming available, that we can have more of a direct experience for the soldier to give them the optimum information flow and protection for items that are in their environment.

“When we talk to dismounted soldiers in the field, they’re very interested in knowing ‘where am I at, what’s the route I’m walking on, where are my buddies, and where are other points of interest’,” Darkow continues. “Right now, they have a Google-map type display that is somewhat abstractive. If we can get to a head-mounted display that is see-through, now we can actually put in the direction that they’re looking that same symbology so there’s not an abstract translation that they have to do in their head.”

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