To “accelerate” Android XR development, Google announced this evening that it “signed an agreement to welcome some of the HTC VIVE engineering team to Google.” In 2017, Google acquired a part of HTC’s smartphone business to build out the Pixel division. That saw around 2,000 HTC employees join Google for $1.1 billion. A similar situation is happening again. Of the incoming team, Google says: They are an incredibly strong technical team with a proven track record in the VR space, and we are looki...