Microsoft HoloLens finds second home in the military after failing battlefield tests

The US Army's attempt to turn Microsoft HoloLens headsets into battlefield kit may have failed, but the AR goggles aren't going into the garbage. Instead, they're being repurposed for remote cargo inspection support.

When it comes to ensuring that pallets of military equipment are properly load-balanced for air transport, there's no one better suited to confirm requirements have been met than the US Air Force. Unfortunately, there's no way for delicate airmen to be everywhere Army grunts are stuck (this vulture is an Army veteran), and even if they're allowed to jump out of airplanes you may not want the average ground-pounder securing cargo that's supposed to actually complete its flight. 

Faced with that conundrum, the Air Force and Army teamed up to use HoloLens headsets in one of the ways Redmond actually intended, by letting someone qualified see through the eyes of ...