Barra moves to Facebook to head VR activities

News Wireless Global 26 JAN 2017
Barra moves to Facebook to head VR activities
Hugo Barra has left Xiaomi in order to head up Facebook's virtual reality efforts. The news was announced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the social network. Barra's title will be Vice President of VR. 

This follows the reorganisation of Oculus in December, into mobile and PC groups. CEO Brendan Iribe stepped down in order to lead the company’s PC division, and parent company Facebook went in search of a new CEO for the VR unit.

Barra announced earlier that he was leaving Xiaomi for personal reasons to move back to the US, after 3.5 years leading the Chinese company's international expansion. Prior to that he was a top executive for Android at Google.  


 

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