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Google’s head of AR software quits, citing “unstable commitment and vision” (arstechnica.com)

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Departure follows layoffs, project cancellations, and other chaos.

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[–] zurohki@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Google? Unstable commitment to a project? That's crazy talk!

[–] NotTheOnlyGamer@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

I mean, Google has been unstable about AR for about ten years now. I'm not surprised at this decision.

[–] wagesj45@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wild. If they could get the display tech small enough to fit in even thick frames (which can be pretty stylish) this would be a money printer. People loved to shit on the original Google Glass, but I'm convinced it was just some kind of hivemind bullshit. "Hur dur dumb glasses. It has a big ol' notch on the front hurr." It was first gen AR, of course it was gonna look a little bulky. So the entire industry cooled on what would and still could be an amazing technology.

Drives me mad thinking about what we could have if we hadn't scared the CEOs of these tech firms away from it.

[–] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For parents, imagine some glasses where you have the kids wear a token or tie it to a device, and then I can see where they are in a crowd. So many hassles and scares averted.

[–] wagesj45@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Infinite possibilities down the drain cause some kids on line goofed on the bulging projector.

[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Google still has an AR division? I assumed they killed it years ago when glass flopped and then went away

[–] Jarmer@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It flopped, they killed it, brought it back, killed it again, relaunched a new division for software only, then killed that. That's big brain business management right there. Pichai has been the biggest failure of a ceo I've seen in a very long time. It's really incredible.

[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Wow, that's almost worse than their seemingly constant churn in the chat space

[–] secrethat@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Vison.. get it? Hah! *slaps knee

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