Google has hired Richard Marks, senior research engineer who has helped creating among the other things Eye Toy and PlayStation Eye since the PS2 era, and more recently PlayStation Move and PlayStation VR at Sony.
Google is rumored to be entering the video games business, having hired very high profile executives such as former PlayStation and Xbox’s Phil Harrison, and former PlayStation Home chief Jack Buser and Xbox Live Arcade creator Greg Canessa.
“ATAP is at the intersection of science and application where our goal is to solve significant problems and close the gap between what if and what is,” the company confirmed the move in a note issued to VentureBeat.
“We’re super excited about Richard joining the senior team and look forward to his contributions.”
Marks was at Sony since 1999 and for most of his time there he ran Magic Lab, a very experimental internal division at the company that took care of the most future-proof stuff, like virtual reality, across each generation.
Mountain View’s company is reported to be working hard on a PlayStation and Xbox competitor, and a game streaming platform codenamed Yeti is apparently in the making. That, based on the most recent reports, doesn’t rule out regular consoles and studio acquisitions.
