We all know that Hugo Barra was Xiaomi's Global Vice President who said earlier this week that he is leaving Xiaomi and heading back to Silicon Valley joining Facebook to lead the Oculus team and all of the companies Virtual Reality efforts.
Mark Zuckerberg on Hugo Barra said that I'am very excited to see Hugo is joining Facebook to lead our VR efforts including our Oculus team.
After that Hugo shares his thought about virtual reality and augmented reality will be the next major computing platform and we all know guys that as technology is changing day by day we are improving in the filed of virtual reality and augmented reality.Hugo also said that virtual reality and augmented reality enable us to experience completely new things and be more creative than ever before.
Sharing the Facebook co-founder's post, Hugo Barra wrote,
"I’m excited to share my next adventure as I return to Silicon
Valley—in a couple of months I'll be joining Facebook as VP of virtual
reality (VPVR!) and lead the Oculus team." He added that "Xiaomi CEO Lei
Jun always says that the highest calling of an engineer is to make
technology breakthroughs quickly and readily available to the widest
possible spectrum of humanity. That will be my mission at Facebook and I
look forward to building the future of immersive technology with Mark
Zuckerberg, Brendan Trexler Iribe, Mike Schroepfer, and the visionaries
in the Oculus team."
Hugo Barra, who's been the face of Xiaomi ever since he joined the company after leaving Google around three and a half years ago, announced his departure via Facebook earlier this week citing health and other personal reasons.
Hugo said,"What I've realized is that the last few years of living in such a
singular environment have taken a huge toll on my life and started
affecting my health." Hugo Barra had written in the Facebook post
announcing his departure from Xiaomi, "My friends, what I consider to be
my home, and my life are back in Silicon Valley, which is also much
closer to my family. Seeing how much I've left behind these past few
years, it is clear to me that the time has come to return."
Before joining Xiaomi, Hugo Barra was the Vice President of Product Development for Android at Google.
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