Early this week, we reported that Ex-Xiaomi VP, Hugo Barra was leaving the Chinese-based company to go back to Silicon Valley because of health reasons.
Well it didn’t take him too long to rest as Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled him as the new head of Virtual Reality at Facebook. He will also lead the Oculus team.
According to Zuckerberg,
I’ve known Hugo for a long time, starting when he helped develop the Android operating system, to the last few years he’s worked at Xiaomi in Beijing bringing innovative devices to millions of people.
Hugo shares my belief that virtual and augmented reality will be the next major computing platform. They’ll enable us to experience completely new things and be more creative than ever before. Hugo is going to help build that future, and I’m looking forward to having him on our team.
Hugo Barra also made this announcement on his Twitter page also
Joining Facebook as VP of virtual reality (VPVR!) to lead Team @Oculus. So excited! Mark posted about it here: https://t.co/kYgIniSQiM pic.twitter.com/7fYTkniykr
— Hugo Barra (@hbarra) January 26, 2017
