Us Stock Research News, Sina Science and Technology News on the morning of May 18, Beijing time, it is reportedFacebook IncHugo Barra, vice president of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), announced his departure.

"Today is my last day working at Facebook Inc Reality Labs," Barra wrote on Facebook. Over the past four years, I have been involved in a number of projects that are more exciting and challenging than what has happened to me throughout my career, and I am really happy to meet some of the smartest and kindest people. " Now Barra is ready to "explore the field of medical and health technology." Barra believes that people need tools to deeply understand health and control health consequences, but society as a whole still lacks such tools.

Prior to that, Barra was vice president of Alphabet Inc-CL C's Andorid product management team, and then joinedmilletHe was the vice president of XIAOMI worldwide. Joined Facebook Inc in 2017 to work for the Oculus VR team. In 2019, Barra became vice president of AR and VR, mainly to help Facebook Inc build a global AR/VR partner ecosystem, which later became Facebook Inc Reality Labs.

Not long ago, Facebook Inc just showed off consumer-grade smart glasses. In September last year, Facebook Inc said that smart glasses would be launched sometime in 2021, but it seemed to want to cool down the product and didn't want people to expect too much. Facebook Inc CFO said at the conference in March that the smart glasses were not the technology Facebook Inc finally pursued in the AR field.

Facebook Inc CEO Zuckerberg thanked Barra for his work. "you helped the company build the next-generation computing platform and build a complete ecosystem around it, and thank you for everything you've done," he said. "I've learned a lot from working with you, and I'm looking forward to your next product," Zuckerberg said. "

Source of this article: American Stock Research