Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe Steps Down; Will Lead PC VR Group

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.

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.

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