La augmented reality has become one of the biggest draws a tech company can work on. For a few years, Apple is investing heavily in the field of augmented reality, and thus we have been able to observe it in each one of its movements. From the launch of ARKit to the launch of the Measurements app in iOS 12.
One of the engineers who was working the most at Apple in this area was Avi Bar Zeev, the engineer who co-founded Hololens, Microsoft's smart glasses. Bar-Zeev left Microsoft for the Big Apple after having worked in many other companies and now we know that has left Apple in January.
Apple runs out of Hololens co-founder Avi Bar-Zeev
Avi Bar-Zeev has been a pioneer, architect and consultant in AR / VR / MR (virtual reality) for more than 25 years, involved in the largest technology companies in the world. In particular, he helped found and invent HoloLens at Microsoft, putting together early AR prototypes, demos, and UX concepts. He also built the first prototypes for what is now known as the 'AR cloud'.
Apple hired Avi Bar-Zeev in June 2016 and after two years announces that he is leaving the big apple. He assures that he only has words of gratitude from those of Cupertino and that he had the best start one can imagine. Of course, the project he was working on in California is unknown, but what we do know is that it was part of the creation of a large amount of software related to all augmented reality that the Big Apple has been presenting in recent years. .
It must be remembered that the augmented reality engineer flow not uncommon at Apple. In 2015, Apple Stole to another engineer from Microsoft's Hololens project to work most likely on the HomePod that we can see in stores today. Some engineers enter and others leave, what is clear is that work continues in Cupertino and they continue to develop technology that can improve their devices and, ultimately, people's lives.