Earlier this week, former Android executive Hugo Barra announced that he was leaving his post leading Xiaomi’s international efforts, citing personal reasons and a desire to go back to his normal life in Silicon Valley and take some much-needed time off. Well, so much for the taking some time off part, as Facebook has just announced Barra will be joining the ranks to lead all of the company’s VR efforts.
Barra will replace Brendan Iribe at Oculus, who stepped down from the CEO job last month to lead Oculus’ PC-focused VR efforts instead. Fittingly, Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement in a Facebook post accompanied by a photo of the two executives meeting in VR.
