HoloLens Optics Chief Joins Google Amid Reported Push for Upcoming Google AR Headset
Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, has left the company to take on the role of Director of XR Engineering at the recently formed Google Labs. A report by The Verge maintains Google is also now gearing up to produce an AR headset that could directly compete with similar offerings from the likes […]

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21. Januar 2022
Google’s New ‘Labs’ Team Brings AR/VR, Project Starline & Area 120 Under a Single Roof
Google is shaking things up with the reorganization of its AR/VR efforts, Project Starline, and Area 120 in-house incubator, dubbing the internal team ‘Google Labs’. As first reported by TechCrunch, Google is shifting a few of its notable forward-looking projects into a single team and bringing them under the leadership of Google veteran Clay Bavor. […]

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12. November 2021
Google Makes ‘Tilt Brush’ Open Source as Active Development Comes to a Halt
Google announced it has stopped active development on Tilt Brush (2016), the company’s VR paint app. All is not lost though. As the team pivots to creating immersive AR experiences, Tilt Brush has officially gone open source, allowing anyone to modify or even clone the app in its entirety. Even before Google discontinued its home-spun Daydream platform in […]

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27. Januar 2021