Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe announced that he will relinquish the top job but stay on to lead the Facebook-owned virtual reality company?s PC VR group.
Iribe said in a blog post that recent hire Jon Thomason will lead the mobile VR group at Oculus, and he, Thomason and Facebook chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer will team up to find a new leader to manage the Oculus teams.
Highlights from Iribe?s blog post follow:
Changing the world on that scale has required us to also scale Oculus at warp speed. With our growth and product strategy, we?ve decided to establish new PC and mobile VR groups to be more focused, strengthen development and accelerate our roadmap. Looking ahead and thinking about where I?m most passionate, I?ve decided to lead the PC VR group?pushing the state of VR forward with Rift, research and computer vision. As we?ve grown, I really missed the deep, day-to-day involvement in building a brand new product on the leading edge of technology.
You do your best work when you love what you?re working on. If that?s not the case, you need to make a change. With this new role, I can dive back into engineering and product development. That?s what gets me up every day, inspired to run to work.
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