Barra moves to Facebook to head VR activities

(Telecompaper) 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 reogranisation 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.