Petr Škuta Apple is not opposed to changes in its own ranks, and we can often expect moves in individual positions. This time, the team for augmented reality was strengthened by an experienced software manager.
Kim Vorrath has worked in the software department for over fifteen years. However, he is now moving to the Augmented Reality team. It is led by Mike Rockwell, VP of AR and VR. Rockwell was directly responsible to Dan Riccio.
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Rockwell manages the team through a dozen reports that detail all the activity. Whether it is software or hardware or content from the field of augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR). Another woman, Stacey Lysik, will replace Vorrath as software manager.
Little is known about Kim outside Apple's tight corporate circles. In doing so, she played an important role several times. She originally reported to Craig Federeighi. Her daily bread included keeping the pace of development and testing the software. One of the older reports describes her as a choleric field marshal, because that is how she treated her teams.
Order and discipline for the new AR device
Once one of her subordinates left work early. However, this was at the time when the first version of iOS was being completed. This angered Vorrath so much that she slammed the door to her office in a rage and broke the doorknob. She remained trapped in the office until her then-boss, Scott Forstall, tried to rescue her with a baseball bat.
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Apple intends to bring more order and discipline to the AR team with the help of Kim. The company is expected to bet on a new product for augmented reality. There is a lot of speculation about glasses, but it could also be about anything else.
At the same time, the management of the company wants to prevent the problems that accompanied, for example, the original operating system for the Apple Watch smart watch. In any case, the new product will probably not see the light of day before 2020. However, according to the latest reports from internal sources, even this term may be overly optimistic.
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Amaya Toman Source: 9to5Mac
So that's the nail in the coffin of Apple's AR/VR project. Cook went crazy. No programmer does his job well and with joy when he knows that he is bossed by an idiot.