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The $1.8 Billion Measurement Problem

The U.S. Army spent about $1.8 billion on augmented reality headsets that are headed for storage, not the field. The hardware takes the blame, but the deeper failure was measurement. This article explores why outcomes without spatial context cannot tell you what to fix.

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