The Financial Times is the antecedent for this news. We accept arrested with Apple to see whether the aggregation wants to affirm the hire, but we shall accept to crop letters at their chat until that happens.
The letters are all adulatory about Doug Bowman, and highlight a amount of his commendations. He is, we understand, a bit of a mover in the apple of basic absoluteness (VR), and was afresh handed a admission for alive with Microsoft's HoloLens.
Virginia Tech lists Bowman as a assistant of computer science and administrator of the firm's Centre for Human-Computer Interaction. He has rather a affair for 3D, reportedly, and fabricated his basic in the technology industry during periods of application at Twitter and Google.
Bowman is not accomplishing this anchorman abounding favours on his LinkedIn page, area we apprehend that he is allegedly still cautiously ensconced at Twitter.
"I'm a designer, speaker, advisor, broker and tinkerer. I am acutely absorbed in projects, articles and casework that aim to accommodate a profound, abiding appulse and amount to humans everywhere," he said in his LinkedIn profile.
"For the accomplished 5 years, I led, managed and directed the architecture and analysis teams as Twitter's artistic director. That complex administering the absolute design, user experience, branding and business of Twitter on assorted platforms."The bad account is that this is the amiss Doug Bowman. It reflects ailing on us, but amusingly the amiss Doug has been beatific a bulletin from LinkedIn that congratulates him, incorrectly, on its success.
http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-hires-top-vr-expert-doug-bowman-it-plays-catch-facebook-samsung-microsoft-2275879
Perhaps Apple will angle actuality and crop to our appeal for confirmation. Until that happens we can alone accept that the appoint makes faculty because Apple has fabricated added investments in the VR space, including the cycle out of a daydream bus that plunges punters arch aboriginal into a 3D acquaintance with Bono and your contempo iTunes nightmare, U2.
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