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Amazon Web Services Quietly Forms a Mixed Reality Team, But What Is It Building? (geekwire.com)

Posted by msmash on from the going-forward dept.

Nat Levy, reporting for GeekWire: Amazon is building a new "two pizza team" within Amazon Web Services focused on mixed-reality technology, another sign that the cloud powerhouse is expanding its reach and branching out into new areas. AWS isn't talking publicly about the initiative, but a job posting for a software engineer sheds some light on the team's goals. The posting says the company is "building a set of services, and platform to bring AWS and Amazon into the world of Mixed Reality." The company wants engineers with experience in "Computer Vision, 3D objects, rendering and data storage by designing, developing and testing software solutions." The posting further states that "applications would include real-time 3D modeling, image and video stream processing all within a scalable distributed environment." The posting calls the group a "true start-up within AWS (a real two pizza team)." The two-pizza term goes back to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and his well-known rule that any team or meeting that can't be fed with two pizzas is too large.

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  1. Mixed reality by invid · · Score: 2

    I guess mixed reality is the new term for augmented reality.

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  2. "Two-pizza team"? by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What is the specific reference? Just using Seattle-area joints, this could be all over the place...

    Mod Pizza: Max team size is apparently two people

    Pagliacci's: Six to eight people, depending on how hungry they are

    Northlake Tavern: Two pizzas can easily feed a dozen, maybe more

    So which is it, Bezos?

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