Facebook poaches Google’s AR/VR engineering lead
facebook is bringing on the engineering lead for Google's total AR/VR workforce to deal with Portal hardware.
Ryan Cairns comes aboard after 12 years at Google, the place he was most just lately the engineering lead for a workforce of greater than 500 folks tackling AR/VR on the massive G, together with Daydream, Lens and ARCore, in line with his LinkedIn.
His arrival comes after some massive modifications to Facebook's hardware workforce. Last month, the corporate shook up its Building eight hardware workforce, splitting it up into Facebook Reality Labs (AR/VR) and Portal groups. Rafa Camargo took over the Portal workforce whereas Michael Abrash stayed accountable for Facebook Reality Labs, in line with a Business Insider report. Today's shakeup shifts Camargo to taking up AR/VR, whereas Cairns will tackle Portal.
No phrase on how this impacts the function of Michael Abrash, who has been a really public face for the corporate's AR/VR efforts. We've reached out to Facebook for more information.
Update 12:42 PT: Facebook has confirmed Abrash nonetheless holds his function as chief scientist main Facebook Reality Labs.
Bringing an AR/VR engineer to tackle Portal whereas the man who was main Portal takes on AR/VR could appear a bit questionable however Facebook does see fairly a little bit of crossover between the 2 hardware efforts which each closely leverage laptop imaginative and prescient tech. While Portal takes the same type issue of different sensible screens from Google and Amazon, what distinguishes it are the options that observe folks's our bodies and faces to routinely body pictures when customers are additional away from the digital camera in addition to making use of AR selfie masks which are accessible in different merchandise.
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