Enlarge / Search engines Glass for Enterprise. Google’s job listings suggest that the new device and platform would be more mass-market than the one picture here. (credit: Google)
Yahoo was one of the early leaders in the first wave of modern augmented reality (AR) research and devices, but the company has appeared to cool to AR in recent years even as Apple plus Facebook have invested heavily within it. But it looks like that trend will soon be reversed.
On LinkedIn , operating program engineering director Mark Lucovsky announced that he has joined Google. He previously headed up mixed reality operating system work for Meta, in addition to before that he was one of the key architects of Windows NT at Microsoft. “My role is to lead the Operating System team for Augmented Reality at Google, ” he wrote.
He also posted a link to some work listings at Google that give the particular impression Google is getting just as serious about AR as Apple or Meta.
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