“Apple just made a significant hire in the virtual reality (VR) space: The iPhone maker has hired serial entrepreneur Arthur van Hoff, a founding executive of the Disney-backed VR startup Jaunt,” Janko Roettgers reports for Variety. “Van Hoff started at Apple in a senior architect position this month, according to his Linkedin profile.”
“There’s no word on whether he will work on Apple’s still-unannounced augmented reality (AR) headset, or on other projects,” Roettgers reports, “but chances are he might be working with some of his old colleagues: Apple has hired a number of former Jaunt engineers over the past few years to work on AR, computer vision, camera systems and other projects.”
“Apple has been working on an augmented reality headset with VR capabilities for some time,” Roettgers reports. “The company still hasn’t officially revealed its plans for this space, but a recent report suggested that it may start to manufacture the device as early as Q4 of this year.”
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Hopefully, Apple has learned from the AirPower fiasco and not pre-announce any AR/VR products ahead of time.
Tim Cook already shot his wad on firing people by getting rid of the excellent engineer, Forstall, a major influence. Mistakes are now piling up in latter day Apple, so he can’t just keep on firing otherwise good engineers and executives. So Cook is stuck with a inherently dysfunctional Apple and I doubt that he or Ive can do anything to remediate the operation of this now huge bureaucracy. Jobs set Apple personnel to work in crisis mode on innovation. This worked wonders to rescue it from near collapse.
But people are not psychologically set up in that MO for a long-term, perhaps continuous basis. So I believe that now, with Cook’s relaxed, non-confrontational Emilio-style leadership, workers and supervisors are also relaxing and perhaps careless that is resulting in this bad PR stain on Apple.
Cook stopped promising innovative products coming down his pipeline perhaps because even he realizes that they are mere elaborations on an existing product, not innovations.
AR is the way to go, it has so much potential
That’s so cool, these new tech always impress me