{"id":134454,"date":"2022-01-21T09:23:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T17:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/hololens-optics-chief-joins-google-amid-reported-push-for-upcoming-google-ar-headset"},"modified":"2022-01-21T09:23:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T17:23:35","slug":"hololens-optics-chief-joins-google-amid-reported-push-for-upcoming-google-ar-headset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/hololens-optics-chief-joins-google-amid-reported-push-for-upcoming-google-ar-headset","title":{"rendered":"HoloLens Optics Chief Joins Google Amid Reported Push for Upcoming Google AR Headset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hololens-optics-chief-joins-google-amid-reported-push-for-upcoming-google-ar-headset2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft\u2019s 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/1\/20\/22892152\/google-project-iris-ar-headset-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Verge<\/em><\/a> maintains Google is also now gearing up to produce an AR headset that could directly compete with similar offerings from the likes of Apple and Meta.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Microsoft in 2015, Kress worked as principal optical architect behind Google Glass, the company\u2019s smartglasses that found marked success in the enterprise sector after a rocky reception by consumers in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>At Microsoft, Kress continued his work\u2014principally focused on micro-optics, wafer scale optics, holography and nanophotonics\u2014as partner optical architect on the HoloLens team, overseeing the release of both HoloLens and HoloLens 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft\u2019s 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134454","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=134454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}