Microsoft Zune Executive J Allard is led by a secret team in Amazon

Glold, former Microsoft An execution and one of the minds behind Zune leads a new team in Amazon, CNBC Reports. Allard is officially Vice President Amazon’s Zeroone, who is based on at least that Amazon function menuIt is “a special project team dedicated to the consumption of consumer product categories.”

What is the zero that he actually works on is still a bit mysterious, but CNBC He was able to find another list of “Senior Applied Scholars” The role that indicates that the team will be “the perception, design and presentation of a computer vision techniques for a new smart product.” Computer seeing is the parachute term for technologies that allow computer systems to “understand” images and videos – for example, the ability of the videos videos to determine the date of the package on the door step.

Depending on your taste in MP3 players, it can give you the role of Allard in creating Microsoft Zune to stop. The failed mp3 operator of Microsoft looked distinctive, but it was not identical to the popularity of the iPod. Zune was one of many interesting projects, if Aliad did not succeed in Microsoft, including Microsoft KinAnd CurtainA tablet, similar to the book, was later re -imagined in the name of The new surface. Allard also participated in the creation of the original Xbox, and it can be said that it is the largest demand for fame in the company.

Zeroone will be located within the Amazon larger hardware and services section, which is led by Panos Panay, another expatriate from Microsoft. Panay joined Amazon To lead the department in 2023, after several years to oversee the development of surface devices and Windows 11 in Microsoft. Since Panay joined the company, I launched Amazon A new assortment from Oqda Giving up Alexa+Merging it from artificial intelligence in the known sound assistant. The recruitment of both Allard and Panay suggests that Amazon plans to stir more difficult to develop products to move forward.