Metaverse, Google follows Facebook: even in Mountain View they start working on virtual reality
The idea of the “metaverse” is also influencing Google’s projects. How do you read on the Ansa, the American giant has in fact announced the integration into the already existing team of Google Labs (the site where the company offers non-definitive products), of all programs concerning the virtual reality is that increased. Other companies take a similar approach, such as Facebook, from which Reality Labs the prototypes of the Facebook Glass, which later became i Rayban Stories, produced together with EssilorLuxottica.
Although we do not have precise indications about the activities that the team will undertake in the first period Labs, the company, in an announcement, described the purpose of the reorganization which will “focus on launching and growing new forward-looking investment areas for the entire company. At the heart of the new course is there Labs, which will analyze emerging technological trends on a series of high-potential and long-term projects ”.
THE Google Labs will be guided by Clay Bavor, a veteran of the company, who in the recent past oversaw the holographic video conferencing project known as Project Starline. TO Bavor all the initiatives will be in charge AR and VR from Google, as well as Starline And Area 120, the incubator that develops products and services from internal and external startup ideas. At the moment, Area 120 is working on ThreadIt, smart working platform, with the particularity of the presence on video, e Stack, app that extracts key information from files and documents.
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