Hugo Barra is leaving the Oculus team for a Facebook ‘global AR/VR partner’ initiative

Hugo Barra, the former Xiaomi executive who has run Facebook’s Oculus VR team since 2017, is changing roles in what looks like a larger shake-up in VR at Facebook. Barra announced on Twitter that he would be “taking a new role [at Facebook] building a global AR/VR partner ecosystem based in NYC.” He’s being replaced by Erick Tseng, formerly Facebook’s director of product management.
Barra is transferring just before Oculus launches its new Quest mobile headset. Ech