Economic Observation Network According to sources familiar with the matter, Paul Meade, Apple's Vice President in charge of the Vision Pro headset and its smart glasses research and development business, will leave Apple next week and join OpenAI's hardware department to lead the development of OpenAI's new generation of AI smart hardware products. For nearly seven years, Meade has been leading the hardware engineering team for the Vision Pro headset, which was once considered Apple's next-generation core computing platform.