AR’s been a thing for some years now, but companies are starting to put more of an emphasis on it. Google recently posted a job posting to help build an operating system for an “innovative AR device.” We don’t know the details on this, but this OS shows that the company wants to take augmented reality seriously.
Google is creating a new augmented reality OS for an unspecified device
Right now, Google is on the very first steps to bringing this initiative to fruition. The company is currently hiring people to help develop a custom OS for the sake of augmented reality.
Mark Lucovsky, who’s worked as an engineer for Microsoft for six years, an operating system general manager at Oculus, and other high profile jobs since the 80s, got hired as a senior director of operating AR systems at Google. He posted this news to his Linkedin page, and the job posting.
Right now, we have no idea what this initiative is going to bring. We don’t know what to expect either on the hardware front or the software front. The fact that Google uses the word “innovative” means that it plans to flip the script on what augmented reality is.
Other companies like Facebook/Meta and Apple are working on their own takes on augmented reality now. This means that Google will be behind the curve a fair bit. With these three companies working on augmented reality, we can expect to see some interesting stuff in the next couple of years.
Do you want to apply?
Since this is a new position, anyone who’s interested (and qualified, of course) can put in their application. Here is the job posting. As a rundown of the qualifications, you need to, AT LEAST have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practice.
You’ll need at least 5 years in software design (C or C++), 3 years of maintaining and launching software, and 1 year of software design.
Those are just the minimum qualifications. Google prefers that you have a Master’s or a Ph.D. in computer science. You’ll need 3 years working with embedded operating systems. Also, you’ll need experience with multi-core and non-traditional memory topologies, low-level peripheral drivers and hardware bringup, embedded system security, and performance optimization for ARM processors.
There are other qualifications on the actual application. If you’re interested, you’d better apply fast. This new OS could be the next frontier in augmented reality technology. We can expect more news to roll out about his OS over the next couple of years.
2021-12-16 15:07:57