Professor Doug Bowman
Credit: Virginia Tech
Apple has hired Professor Doug Bowman, from Virginia Tech. Professor Bowman’s field is virtual reality, specifically, “... three-dimensional user interface design & the benefits of immersion in virtual environments.”
Apple has made a number of other acquisitions in the virtual reality field in recent years.
Watch this space.
http://9to5mac.com/2015/02/26/apple-display-projection-systems-for-virtual-reality/
http://www.techinsider.io/apple-hires-doug-bowman-vr-expert-2016-1
http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/22/10813740/apple-vr-expert-hire-doug-bowman-virginia-tech / discovered last year Apple hiring software engineers experience virtual reality gaming user interfaces new job listings Apple’s interest development hardware virtual reality Apple seeking Senior Display Systems Engineer display systems design development virtual reality VR environments Apple experience experienced monitor projection technologies extremely high fidelity VR environments job listing specify test novel display systems virtual environments work with vendors develop custom display solutions design select appropriate hardware software components optimize fidelity variety of VR environments develop software support displaying rendered image sequences display hardware software electrical mechanical engineers testing integration job listing posted Apple seeking Senior Display Software Engineer support graphics software engineering efforts VR environments engineer own display pipeline rendered image sequences display hardware experience motion capture systems acquisition PrimeSense Apple company sensor’s used in Microsoft’s Kinect Apple posted job listings application app engineers work on virtual reality augmented reality experiences Apple patent virtual reality headset products currently on the market Google’s recently launched Cardboard experiment Pinc Samsung’s Gear VR grant granted patent job listings app engineers experienced Oculus Rift VR hardware new job listings Apple developing hardware experience /
