Google confirmed to VentureBeat late Tuesday that Clay Bavor, VP for product management and one of the execs behind Google Cardboard, will head up the company’s virtual reality team.<br />The appointment of Bavor is seen as a sign of Google’s greater commitment to developing its own VR tech, a potentially lucrative field that, by all appearances, is soon to be dominated by Facebook’s Oculus, HTC’s Vive, and Sony’s Playstation VR — all expected to launch this spring.<br />Microsoft is working on augmented reality tech with HoloLens, though that’s estimated to still be at least half a decade away.<br />Arguably, Google’s real push into VR is also years from seeing the light of day — virtual reality startup Magic Leap (which received a $542 million investment round led by Google back in October 2014) is keeping fairly quiet about its progress.
