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Mark Lucovsky, Google's Senior Director of Engineering in charge of its AR and XR efforts, has left the company and slammed its 'unstable vision.'

Googles senior director for engineering Mark Lucovsky, who led the companys OS and software platform for AR and XR devices, left the company.

Departure follows layoffs, project cancellations, and other chaos.

Days after it was reported that Google's "Project Iris" AR glasses were shelved, a senior executive has publicly announced their departure.

It was intended to compete with the forthcoming headsets from Meta (formerly Facebook) and Apple. However, recent reports suggest that Google has decided to halt the development of glasses-shaped AR devices

Last January, we revealed that Google was also building an AR headset - "Project Iris" would be the company's bet against the then-to-be-announced headgear

It appears that Google has shut down their AR Glasses hardware project to focus on developing an Android Spin-Off OS supporting the Samsung, Google, Qualcomm Alliance that is developing an XR headset ecosystem

A reliable source has passed along a legal document in the ongoing lawsuit between Google and Microsoft over Google's hiring of Kai-Fu Lee. The document is the "Declaration of Mark Lucovsky" in the case. Lucovsky was a distinguished engineer at Microsoft who defected to Google in November of 2004....

Raxium says its display tech is five times more efficient than the current world record holder.

Raxium, which is joining Google, claims its tech will make a new class of smaller, more powerful display products such as AR and VR micro-displays.