Palmer Luckey returns to the world of headphones years after taking down Facebook

“The idea is to augment soldiers,” Luckey told Wired. “Their visual perception, audible perception — basically to give them all the vision that Superman has, and then some, and make them more lethal.”

If it reminds you of scenes like those in Marvel’s “Iron Man,” you’re not far off base. Luckey called it a “classic sci-fi concept” in his interview with Wired.

In a press release issued Thursday by Anduril, the company said it has “successfully integrated Lattice into Microsoft’s IVAS hardware and software platform, enabling soldiers to see real-time threats in the battlespace.” Robin Seiler, corporate vice president of Mixed Reality at Microsoft, said in the statement that the collaboration between the two companies will enable safer military operations and “allow us to further expand the impact that IVAS will have” on US soldiers.

It’s a victory lap of sorts for the billionaire, who was ousted from Facebook in 2016 after the company acquired Luckey’s Oculus two years earlier.

The convening came amid backlash surrounding Luckey’s political donations to a pro-Donald Trump group. Meta and Zuckerberg previously said his politics were not a factor in his departure.

Earlier this month, the US military announced it had awarded a contract to Anduril for the company’s Ghost X unmanned aircraft system.

“I’m one of the smartest people in the VR industry, I think,” he told Wired. “And if that sounds arrogant, remember that it takes arrogance to start a company like Anduril.”

The US military, Anduril and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.