{"id":132693,"date":"2021-12-19T05:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T13:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/google-staffs-up-to-build-os-for-unknown-innovative-ar-device"},"modified":"2021-12-19T05:23:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T13:23:17","slug":"google-staffs-up-to-build-os-for-unknown-innovative-ar-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/google-staffs-up-to-build-os-for-unknown-innovative-ar-device","title":{"rendered":"Google staffs up to build OS for unknown \u2018innovative AR device\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-staffs-up-to-build-os-for-unknown-innovative-ar-device2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s current Glass hardware is built on Android.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Google is hiring an \u201cAugmented Reality OS\u201d team focused on building software for an \u201cinnovative AR device,\u201d according to job listings <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2021\/12\/13\/google-augmented-reality-os\/\">spotted by <em>9to5Google<\/em><\/a>. The team is led by Mark Lucovsky, who announced he\u2019d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marklucovsky\/status\/1470528993984081921\">joined the company this week<\/a>. Lucovsky previously worked at Meta developing an in-house alternative to Android to power the company\u2019s hardware, and also co-authored the Windows NT operating system.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google\u2019s job listings, the Augmented Reality OS team is building \u201cthe software components that control and manage the hardware on [its] Augmented Reality (AR) products.\u201d This is far from Google\u2019s first stab at developing AR software, and follows the company\u2019s work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/8\/29\/16219696\/google-arcore-augmented-reality-platform-announce-release-pixel-samsung\">ARCore for Android<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/6\/9\/11895368\/google-project-tango-name-change-ar-atap\">Tango<\/a>. The company\u2019s Google Glass, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/2\/4\/21121472\/google-glass-2-enterprise-edition-for-sale-directly-online#:~:text=%E2%80%9CGlass%20Enterprise%20Edition, developing%20for%20Glass.%E2%80%9D\">aimed at the business and enterprise market<\/a>, is currently built on Android.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>This morning I became a Noogler. My role is to lead the Operating System team for Augmented Reality at Google.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company\u2019s current Glass hardware is built on Android. Google is hiring an \u201cAugmented Reality OS\u201d team focused on building software for an \u201cinnovative AR device,\u201d according to job listings spotted by 9to5Google. The team is led by Mark Lucovsky, who announced he\u2019d joined the company this week. Lucovsky previously worked at Meta developing an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,43,1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-business","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}