Congress is deciding whether to give $424.2 million to purchase more military-grade HoloLense headsets from Microsoft after more than 80 percent of soldiers testing the device experienced'mission-affecting physical impairments' in less than three hours of use. The US Army has been testing the augmented reality device since 2018, which claims to improve training and missions on the battlefield by projecting digital information on the screen while allowing users to interact with the physical world. The HoloLens, however, is causing headaches, eyestrain and nausea, and acceptance of the technology'remains low' - a finding that could pause the entire project. Microsoft received $480 million in 2018 to develop prototypes, but the technology is still'experiencing issues' that could force officials to pull their order of more than 100,000 unites. Microsoft received $480 million in 2018 to develop prototypes, but the technology is still'experiencing issues' and making soldiers testing it nauseas, along with giving them headaches In all, the contract is set to amount to up to $21.88 billion over the next decade, with a five-year base agreement that can be extended for another five years.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. If an enemy fighter was several hundred yards away, another was attacking from one mile away, while yet a third fired from a nearby room in a close-quarters urban warfare circumstance, how would U.S. Army soldiers apprehend, integrate and quickly map the locations of multiple targets at once in 3D, all while knowing the range and distance of the enemy forces? Could something like this be possible, one might wonder, given the nuances in perspective, range, navigational circumstances and the limitations of a human eye? These complexities form the conceptual basis upon which the Army is fast-tracking its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), soldier-worn combat goggles engineered with advanced sensors able to overcome some of the limitations of human vision and quickly organize target data.