On Thursday, Anduril and Meta made the news, which felt like a fairy tale, ending Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey. Anduril announced in a blog post that the two companies are working together to build extended reality (XR) devices for the U.S. military.

"I'm happy to work with Meta again," Luki was quoted in the post. “My mission has long been to turn warriors into technicians, and the products we developed with Meta do that.”

The partnership originated from the Soldiers’ Communication Mission Command Next (SBMC) program, formerly known as the Integrated Vision Augmentation System (IVAS). The IVA is a massive military contract with a budget of $22 billion, initially awarded a Hololens-like AR glass that Microsoft awarded soldiers in 2018.

But after endless problems, in February, the military stripped the program from Microsoft and awarded it to Anduril, and Microsoft continued to serve as a cloud provider. The goal is to ultimately provide soldiers with multiple suppliers of mixed reality glasses.

All of this means that if Luckey's former employer Meta wants to take advantage of the lucrative world of potential military VR/AR/XR headphones, it needs to go through Anduril.

The post says the devices will be based on technology from the Meta/VR Research Center Reality Lab. They will use the LLMA AI model of Meta and will utilize Anduril's command and control software called Lattice. This idea is a prerequisite for providing soldiers with real-time battlefield intelligence.

Luki obviously feels good about this reconciliation. Of course, he fired him from Facebook in 2017 about three years after Facebook bought his startup Oculus for $2 billion. This comes after Luckey was involved in Brouhaha for his support for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Luckey turned around in 2017, founding Anduril with co-founders Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens, Matt Grimm.

An Anduril spokesman told TechCrunch that Product Meta and Anduril are building products, even called Eagleeye, which will be the ecosystem of equipment.

Eagleeye was Luckey's first headset called Anduril in Anduril's pitch deck draft, and his investors convinced him to focus on building the software first.

“All of them had worked with me for years via Oculus VR, and when they saw the EagleEye headset in our first Anduril pitch deck draft, they pointed out that it seemed like I was sequencing things irrationally. They believed, correctly, that I was too focused on winning a pissing contest over the future of AR/VR, on proving that I was right and the people who fired me were wrong,” Luckey tweeted in February after winning IVAS contract

After Thursday's news, Luckey posted on X: "For this joint effort, everything is within reach - everything I did before Meta acquired Oculus, everything we made together, and everything I did alone after I was fired."

To prove that Luckey did bury the axe, he said Anduril even launched the Facebook page.