Office VR porn, coquettish operation! The father of Microsoft hololens resigns!

from ： The new intellectual yuan | Good trapped La Yan

Just this Tuesday , Sexual harassment scandal plagued HoloLens cofounder Alex Kipman Submitted his resignation to Microsoft , quit .

According to people familiar with the matter , received Kipman Microsoft cloud and AI Head of Department Scott Guthrie Express , The project will be rescheduled .

That is to say ,Kipman I won't go yet , Until the team is transformed 、 Work handover completed .

Show it live to the whole staff 「 welfare 」

Have to say ,Kipman In the office VR see 「 Hairs 」 What happened , It is true that there is a lot of noise .

The key is , The whole process is 「 live broadcast 」 To the team members present , It also includes female employees ……

Now? , Let's go back to that night , have a look Kipman How did the society die + Man made collapse .

It was one night 8 spot ,6 name MR Members of the team are working overtime to VR The prototype of glasses debug.（ notice 「8 spot 」 and 「 Work overtime 」 Two words put together , Editors always feel a little uncomfortable .）

at that time , Project Leader Kipman Waiting for the acceptance results in the office .

Speaking of Kipman This man , I have to mention the very personal dress .

For example, the iconic shoulder length hair , And the choppy stubble , It looks like the lead singer of a rock band , Like the technical director .

Get down to business , After the engineers finally got it done ,Kipman hold VR The glasses were taken into the windowless cabin of the studio .

But he may have forgotten ,VR The content in the glasses will be mirrored on the big screen in the office .

It means , Everyone outside the hut will see ,Kipman What he chose for his virtual reality experience .

And after he clicks the play button , The whole studio is full of 「 vitality 」.

I saw in that picture , Several young women in miniskirts are playing in bed , Then there was a lively pillow fight .

This expansion really surprised everyone present ……

After the event , An employee present at the time said in an interview that ,「 Isn't that what VR Porn .」

Of course ,Kipman The porn incident is just one example of the thousands of leadership misconduct .

Others are like Kipman Sexual harassment of 、 Verbal violence or something , Microsoft has never eradicated .

Microsoft refused Kipman Make a statement on the matter .

The spokesman said ,「 We will investigate all reported cases one by one . We will take corresponding measures to solve all confirmed situations .」

「 Our punishment includes , fire 、 Demotion 、 Deduct salary or bonus 、 Official criticism 、 Mandatory training, etc , Or a combination of the above punishments .」

It sounds very official ……

another Kipman My former colleagues also said , They have all seen Kipman Misbehaving towards female employees .

「 There is a ,Kipman Rub the shoulder of another female colleague . She kept shrugging her shoulders , Want him to stop , It was obvious that she was uncomfortable . But Kipman Just keep , Always rubbing .」

Disclosed by employees , Microsoft's management also warned female employees not to have sex with Kipman To be alone . Even in recent months , Two seem to be from the human resources department 「 Chaperone 」 Will follow Kipman Attend the meeting .

About these things , Microsoft only denies HR Someone in the Department 「 Chaperone 」Kipman, Everything else is 「 Declined to comment 」.

It's even darker than admitting .

MR The team wants to 「 dissolution 」 了 ？

however , In terms of Technology ,Kipman Still very talented and enthusiastic .

At the age of seven or eight ,Kipman I learned how to do Atari 2600 Programming . And he dreamed of going to America to study , Almost followed the name with 「IT」 All the universities have applied for one time .

later ,Kipman I went to Rochester Institute of technology （RIT）, And in 2001 Graduated with a degree in software engineering in , He joined Microsoft in the same year .

Throughout his career , He is Hololens and Xbox Kinect And other technologies have applied for hundreds of patents .

And what's interesting is ,Kipman The initial work turned out to be research and development Windows Vista—— An operating system that is ultimately completely unpopular .

from 「 metaphysics 」 The perspective of , maybe Hololens It's not warm or hot Kipman It also has something to do with your luck .

It's just BusinessInsider Burst out Kipman After the news of resignation ,Guthrie Just sent an email , Explain what's going on .

Guthrie In an email, it means ,「 Last few months ,Kipman And I talked a lot about the future of the team ... We all think , If Kipman If you want to leave the company to pursue other opportunities , Now is the best time .」

「 I thank you very much Kipman The vision brought to Microsoft in recent years , And what he did for Microsoft to lay out the meta universe .」

「Kipman We will cooperate with the team to complete the transformation smoothly in the next two months , Then leave .」

Sing to a popular tune , This is actually 「 Listen to me ~ Thank you ~ You should have left ~」

Guthrie The team change is actually , The hardware team currently in charge of hybrid reality will join Panos Panay The leadership of the Windows+Devices department .

And responsible for Microsoft Mesh Software teams for products such as the hybrid reality platform will join Jeff Teper One of my men Experiences+Devices department .

Kipman I have no comment on this .

however , Combined with what happened a while ago , Is the change of team organization Kipman The real reason for leaving , We need to make a big question mark .

Of course , No matter Scott Guthrie Mentioned in the email , Because of team adjustment Kipman Is it true that the causal relationship that left Microsoft just now ,HoloLens The big adjustment of the team did not run .

Microsoft MR（ Mixed reality ） The team mainly provides various services AR and VR Our products and solutions , Its brands include HoloLens、IVAS wait , And Microsoft's Mesh service .

These are the key components of Microsoft's layout of the meta universe .

Guthrie Express , Microsoft MR Great progress has been made in the work , And in 5 The month reached two crucial milestones .

One is the US Army 「 Integrated visual enhancement system 」（IVAS） The order of . Microsoft said , The transaction is expected to take place in 10 Revenue during the year 220 Billion dollars .

The high-profile Pentagon contract was HoloLens The image of , But the progress is far behind expectations , And also suffer from quality and performance problems .

The Pentagon Test Office report also shows that , Microsoft's system is currently 「 It has not been shown to be used in combat MR Eyepiece capability 」.

2021 In the autumn IVAS Field test photos of prototype machine

The other is the cooperation with Accenture , Apply Microsoft's new SDK Build an immersive meeting experience .

And now , Microsoft MR The team has also reached the stage of organizational adjustment .

There is only one purpose , That is to make Microsoft , The metauniverse can continue to accelerate .

The main direction of adjustment is divided into hardware and software ：

First of all Grace Hwang、Ruben Caballero、Scott Evans、Ashraf Michail、David Marra And the hybrid reality hardware team they lead will join Windows+ Equipment Organization .

This includes the previous work done by Kipman The leadership of the HoloLens, as well as IVAS project .

Then by Carlos Aguilar、Miguel Susffalich、Nikhil Subramanian The leading team . They will merge into Jeff Teper The leadership of the Experiences+Devices department .

They are mainly responsible for software , And service content .

Ill fated HoloLens

Just this year 2 month 3 Japan ,Insider There was a long article on , Microsoft has put MR Subordinates of the project HoloLens 3 It's dead .

And many people familiar with the matter said , This indicates Microsoft's mixed reality （MR） The end of the header item .

However , Microsoft spokesman Frank · Shaw immediately denied HoloLens Project dead .

at that time ,HoloLens Project leader of Kipman On twitter 「 Don't believe what you see on the Internet , Someone said before Hololens 2 It's also cancelled .」

At a staff meeting before the outbreak of the new crown , Chris, chief marketing officer of Microsoft · Caposella once said ,HoloLens Is a good little tool for promoting video , But it's not that important to Microsoft's business .

And a few years later , The technology industry sees a huge opportunity to immerse users in digital augmented reality and virtual worlds .

however , Although Microsoft's HoloLens Business started earlier , It doesn't look like an investment that pays off in the first place , It's more like being in a 、 The mess of engineers and visions .

2 Monthly report Insider call , Three insiders said , Microsoft canceled in recent months HoloLens 3 The plan for .

One person predicted that this was the end of the project , At least as we all know HoloLens This is the case for series products .

Besides , Microsoft also agreed to work with Samsung to develop a new hybrid reality device , This also provoked divisions within the team .

Microsoft HoloLens Equipment in 2015 At its public appearance in , It has been admired and revered by people .

Wearers can see digital information superimposed on their vision of the physical world through glasses , for example , Show a manual that a technician can glimpse when repairing an electrical appliance .

Unlike Google, which moved into industry after its disastrous attempt to market consumers , At the beginning , Microsoft will HoloLens Positioned as an enterprise product .

However , One former employee estimated that , since 2016 Since its launch in ,HoloLens All in all 4 Wan to 6 Wan Tai equipment . Even in accordance with HoloLens Now up to 3500 More than US dollars , This also makes the business in Microsoft 1680 The annual income of billion dollars is insignificant .

HoloLens, And Microsoft as a whole MR Where is the team going , It's hard to say .

Reference material ：

https://www.businessinsider.com/alex-kipman-resigning-microsoft-following-insider-report-misconduct-allegations-2022-6

https://www.geekwire.com/2022/hololens-leader-alex-kipman-to-leave-microsoft-in-reorg-of-mixed-reality-group-after-report-on-toxic-behavior/