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Oculus transcend brass, Victor-Marie Hugo Barra, departs Facebook

Facebook vice president of VR Hugo Barra demonstrates how to use the new Oculus Go during the annual F8 summit at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on May 1, 2018.

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Hugo Barra, VP of Facebook Reality Labs and partnerships for Oculus and Facebook, has left wing the company. At the fellowship since 2017, Barra oversaw the development of the Oculus Go, Quest, and Quest 2, the troupe's most made headset to date.

"Some personal news: Today is my endure day at Facebook Reality Labs," Barra announced along his Facebook page, "after 4 eld functional on projects that undergo been Sir Thomas More exciting and more challenging than anything I've encountered in my career, with roughly of the brightest minds and kindest mass I've ever had the pleasure to meet.

"... Looking back at what we accomplished together with Oculus Go, Pursuit and Pursuance 2, I'm really beyond proud. And I'm every bit stirred about what's yet to come, starting this year with the launch of Facebook's wise glasses in partnership with Ray-Blackball, which will set about connecting the dots from today's VR headsets to tomorrow's AR glasses."

Facebook's fresh glasses are reportedly arriving this year, and are composed as a stepping Stone to its first AR glasses. Yet, the first brace, ready-made in partnership with Ray-Ban, won't offer an interconnected display, so can't be named AR glasses but yet.

Barra says atomic number 2 will be moving into healthcare engineering science place, afterward reflecting on the impact and reception to the world coronavirus pandemic.

"I hope to constitute able to apply what I've learned from working in the consumer tech industriousness to aid solve meaningful problems in the healthcare earthly concern. Looking forward to unselfish more presently!"

Facebook and Oculus leave keep ticking over, though. Facebook's adjacent VR project may be the Optic Pursuit Pro, which Andrew Bosworth, another VP of Facebook World Labs, expressed was in the works, although not slated to launch this year.

Quest 2 owners can also baffle excited for the launch of House physician Infernal 4, which will launch sometime this year.

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