Facebook’s VP of VR product Hugo Barra is out after some leadership changes at the top of the Oculus organization. He’ll be stepping down into a new role leading AR/VR partnerships, while Eric Tseng, Facebook’s director of product management, will be replacing Barra in a new title as head of VR product management.
Barra came on in early 2017 after the ouster of Oculus’s existing leadership structure, when then-CEO Brendan Iribe was demoted alongside much of the founding team to lead product-specific verticals.
Barra’s role inside CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s inner-circle was diminished after longtime executive Andrew Bosworth was placed ahead of him in the org chart leading AR/VR at Facebook in a role that also included other consumer hardware efforts like Portal. Barra’s departure comes as the company prepares to release two of its latest virtual reality products, the Rift S and Quest.
It’s unclear what the full scope of Barra’s new role is. Facebook partnered with Xiaomi — where Barra previously led international efforts — to build the Oculus Go and Xiamoi’s Mi VR headset.
Alongside this news, Facebook noted that longtime content exec Jason Rubin has seen his role expand as well, we’ve asked for more details.
