The Redmond, Washington-based tech titan Microsoft has streamlined its personnel lineup even before the highly-anticipated HoloLens has released and reached retail stores.

Engadget recently claimed that Microsoft has hired former Lionhead Studios chief John Needham to be in control of all the internal developments for a number of games that will be soon featuring on its gaming console brand Xbox and also directly supervise the upcoming HoloLens platform.

Earlier, Needham was the head of the gaming studio that presented 'Fable,' and will now be working directly under Kudo Tsunoda, who heads Microsoft Studio's portfolio investments team, to supervise the entire development process for all the future offerings of the company on both platforms.

A representative from Microsoft reportedly gave a statement about the new personnel addition to Engadget, saying: "John Needham relocated to Redmond in a new role overseeing internal development for several games and experiences for both Xbox and Microsoft HoloLens reporting to Kudo."

In January, Microsoft announced the HoloLens for the first time along with its Windows 10, and since then people have been curious about it. On its official website dedicated for promoting the HoloLens, Microsoft described the product as saying, "Microsoft HoloLens features see-through, holographic, high-definition lenses and spatial sound so you can see and hear holograms in the world around you. Complete with advanced sensors and a new Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) that understands the world around you, Microsoft HoloLens is able to run without any wires while processing terabytes of data from the sensors in real-time."

In addition to the above description, the Redmond-based tech giant also mentioned that the HoloLens is an entirely product compared to its other device lineups. However, the HoloLens will also be powered by Windows 10. Apart from this, the HoloLens will be functioning properly even with no support of wires, smartphones, or PC connections.

As of now, Microsoft is not releasing much information regarding the HoloLens device, including its official release date. Nevertheless, it is expected that the device will come up for discussion at the Microsoft Build Developer Conference 2015 scheduled next week.