TL;DR
- Apple’s VP of Human Interface Design, Alan Dye, is set to join Meta on December 31 to lead the company’s design efforts.
- Dye will create a new Meta design studio focused on hardware, software, and AI integration.
- The move could give Meta’s wearable devices an edge as they face emerging threats from Google and Samsung via Android XR.
Meta has wielded its financial might to stock up talent in the technology industry, spending millions on poaching AI engineers, researchers, and executives from competitors like Apple and OpenAI. Now, it’s using that strategy to nab Apple’s vice president of human interface design, who led the company’s software design efforts for a decade.
The Apple design executive, Alan Dye, will reportedly join Meta on December 31, according to a Bloomberg report. It comes at a time when Meta’s wearable devices face significant threats, with Google and Samsung building out headsets and smart glasses under the Android XR platform to challenge the Quest, Ray-Ban Meta, and Oakley Meta lines.