Google is hiring an “Augmented Actuality OS” group targeted on constructing software program for an “revolutionary AR system,” in accordance with job listings noticed by 9to5Google. The group is led by Mark Lucovsky, who introduced he’d joined the corporate this week. Lucovsky beforehand labored at Meta growing an in-house various to Android to energy the corporate’s {hardware}, and in addition co-authored the Home windows NT working system.
In line with Google’s job listings, the Augmented Actuality OS group is constructing “the software program elements that management and handle the {hardware} on [its] Augmented Actuality (AR) merchandise.” That is removed from Google’s first stab at growing AR software program, and follows the corporate’s work on ARCore for Android and Tango. The corporate’s Google Glass, which is aimed on the enterprise and enterprise market, is at present constructed on Android.
This morning I turned a Noogler. My function is to steer the Working System group for Augmented Actuality at Google.
In case you are excited by becoming a member of me on this journey, I would love to speak. Here’s a hyperlink to one of many many positions I am working to fill: https://t.co/a4glyeFxVD pic.twitter.com/hVAVKcZvQJ
— mark lucovsky (@marklucovsky) December 13, 2021
“We’re targeted on making immersive computing accessible to many individuals via cell units,” reads one job itemizing for a senior software program engineer on the group, including that they’ll be accountable for serving to “create compelling AR experiences on highly-customized {hardware} platforms.” There are different listings for builders targeted on digicam and enter {hardware}, and a few that point out “real-time working system (RTOS) growth.”
Whereas many of the positions are based mostly within the US, 9to5Google notes that some are based mostly in Waterloo, Canada. It’s right here that North, the augmented actuality firm behind the Focals sensible glasses that Google acquired final 12 months, is predicated.
Between that acquisition and these open job positions, it seems like Google is more and more severe about growing and releasing extra AR {hardware}. The renewed curiosity can’t come quickly sufficient, with Apple rumored to be releasing a mixed-reality headset of its personal as early as subsequent 12 months.
