{"id":67833,"date":"2024-01-11T03:47:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T03:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/11\/google-is-losing-its-fitbit-leaders-and-laying-off-hundreds-of-ar-employees\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T03:47:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T03:47:10","slug":"google-is-losing-its-fitbit-leaders-and-laying-off-hundreds-of-ar-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/11\/google-is-losing-its-fitbit-leaders-and-laying-off-hundreds-of-ar-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is losing its Fitbit leaders and laying off hundreds of AR employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Google\u2019s hardware division just took a body blow. The company has confirmed it\u2019s laying off hundreds of hardware workers, especially in its augmented reality division \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/01\/10\/google-reorganizing-hardware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>9to5Google<\/em> is reporting<\/a> that Fitbit co-founders James Park, Eric Friedman, and other Fitbit leaders are leaving the company entirely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Here\u2019s Google\u2019s statement to <em>9to5Google:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"duet--article--blockquote jzbdts2\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup jzbdtsa jzbdts0\">A few hundred roles are being eliminated in DSPA with the majority of impacts on the 1P AR Hardware team. While we are making changes to our 1P AR hardware team, Google continues to be deeply committed to other AR initiatives, such as AR experiences in our products, and product partnerships.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/1\/10\/24033994\/google-reorganization-fitbit-park-friedman-ar-layoffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s hardware division just took a body blow. The company has confirmed it\u2019s laying off hundreds of hardware workers, especially in its augmented reality division \u2014 and 9to5Google is reporting that Fitbit co-founders James Park, Eric Friedman, and other Fitbit leaders are leaving the company entirely. Here\u2019s Google\u2019s statement to 9to5Google: A few hundred roles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}