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spokesman for Google, Joshua Cruz, confirmed Bavor's new role on
the team, but declined to provide any further details.
According to Bavor's Twitter profile, he is the vice president
of Virtual Reality at Google.
As vice president of product management, Bavor oversaw some of
Google's key apps, including Gmail, Google Drive and Google
Docs, his LinkedIn profile showed.
Technology news website Re/code first reported Bavor's
appointment on Tuesday and said his earlier role will now be
taken over by Senior Vice President Diane Greene. (http://on.recode.net/1OpiznV)
Google has been flirting with virtual reality but never quite
fully dived into it until now. In May last year, the company
announced a partnership with action-camera maker GoPro to enable
360 degree view in virtual reality, using a new technology that
Google had developed.
The company said in November its video-sharing site YouTube
supported virtual reality video. Viewers could view VR video
using a cellphone and Google Cardboard viewer.
Oculus, the virtual reality company Facebook bought in 2014, has
started accepting pre-orders for its much-awaited virtual
reality headset, Rift, which will ship in Q1.
(Reporting by Sneha Teresa Johny in Bengaluru; Editing by
Gopakumar Warrier)
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