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Business Insider’s “leak” pointed out three issues which could negatively affect reception of STP5.

Microsoft, according to the email, expects soldiers will have negative reactions to the devices' ability to perform in low light, and said the devices' thermal imaging performance is expected to be degraded. The email also states that 34 of the devices being used in the test are unpackaged and have used by Microsoft employees, while the Army expects for its soldiers to have "properly packaged, clean, unused" units to test.

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-military-hololens-contract-soldiers-test-2022-3

A new article quoting Elbit’s CEO stated that IVAS’s low light sensors aren’t great currently but they see a solution in sight

“One of the drawbacks of IVAS right now is it doesn’t have a good night vision sensor,” Horowitz said. “The sensors they’re using are not able to be even close to where the image intensifiers are. ENVG-B [Enhanced Night Vision Goggle–Binocular], another one of our products, is much better at night than anything IVAS can provide.”

Under an Other Transaction Authority agreement worth up to $440 million, Elbit has received two orders from the Army for ENVG-B production through February 2023.

In addition, Horowitz said that Elbit is under contract with Army Night Vision Labs “to take the technology we’re developing in Roanoke and adopt it to use in IVAS.”

“As we succeed, we’ll be able to provide an equivalent night vision capability,” he said.

To move Generation IV low-light into IVAS is likely not imminent, however.

“I don’t think it’s soon. I think it’s gonna take a couple of years,” Horowitz said. “There’s a lot of investment in digital sensors, in CMOS and all that, but none of them have really shown that you can get where you need to get.”

My thought is the BI article was FUD from the start (as is typical from BI) and this quote, IMO, shows that the “issues” aren’t without a solution and therefore,aren’t a huge deal