HTC Vive chief designer to join Google on Daydream

Claude Zellweger, who headed the design team at HTC, has left the Taiwanese manufacturer. He starts working at Google to work on the VR platform Daydream. Zellweger was responsible for the design of the HTC Vive and the HTC 10.

Zellweger’s departure to Google was discovered by The Verge. HTC has confirmed the departure to the website. In a tweet say the designer that he will start working at Google Daydream. It is not known exactly what his function will be there.

Daydream is Google’s VR platform for Android smartphones. Google itself has released its Daydream View, a pair of fabric glasses that are used in combination with a smartphone. Other manufacturers may also release their own Daydream glasses.

Zellweger is the third chief designer to leave HTC. He joined the Taiwanese manufacturer along with Scott Croyle and Jonah Becker, after HTC bought their design company One & Co in 2008. Croyle left HTC in 2014 to work on his own Nexbit smartphone. Becker joined Fitbit a year later.