Category: Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook Ropes in Xiaomi’s Hugo Barra To Head VR Division

Facebook recently appointed Hugo Barra, the former Google executive who left Xiaomi Corp, to lead all of its virtual reality efforts including Oculus. In a surprise Facebook post on Wednesday night, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed to the media, “Hugo shares my belief that virtual and augmented reality will be the next major computing platform.

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Social media giant Facebook has announced it had recruited Hugo Barra, who recently quit a top position with Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, as its new head of virtual reality. “I’m excited that Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead all of our virtual reality efforts, including our Oculus team,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on his personal Facebook page yesterday.

Facebook gets ex-Xiaomi executive Barra as new VR head

Social media giant Facebook announced late Wednesday it had recruited Hugo Barra, who recently quit a top position with Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, as its new head of virtual reality. “I’m excited that Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead all of our virtual reality efforts, including our Oculus team,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on his personal Facebook page.

Hugo Barra joins Facebook to lead VR team – CNET

Having announced his departure from Xiaomi to return to Silicon Valley, the former Googler will now be leading the Occulus team as vice president of VR. The former global lead of the Chinese smartphone manufacturer had announced his departure earlier this week to return to Silicon Valley and he appears to quickly found an exciting new gig.

Hugo Barra’s next job: Head of Oculus VR

Mark Zuckerberg just revealed the next landing spot for former Google and Xiaomi executive Hugo Barra : Facebook. As Barra revealed a couple of days ago, he’s coming back to Silicon Valley and will “lead all of our virtual reality efforts, including our Oculus team.”

Zuckerberg charity buys AI startup to battle disease

A charitable foundation backed by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife said Monday it has bought a Canadian artificial intelligence startup as part of a mission to eradicate disease. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan pledged $3 billion over the next decade to help banish or manage all disease / MANILA BULLETIN The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative did not disclose financial terms of the deal to acquire Toronto-based Meta, which uses AI to quickly read and comprehend scientific papers and then provide insights to researchers.

The rise of Homo Technicans: half human and half machine

THE first the world learned of Facebook’s mind-reading project was when the company posted an advert for the position of “brain-computer interface engineer”. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had talked of ‘tech-mediated telepathy’ as a future possibility, but this was a sign that the company was serious about pioneering a technology that might allow us to connect via the net or the cloud with other people, not through the device in our pocket, but directly from our brains.

Lawyer: Luckey not smart enough to create Oculus

Lawyer: Luckey not smart enough to create Oculus ZeniMax lawyers argue that the VR titan didn’t have the education to create $3B Oculus alone. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2jAKo7B Consumers interested in the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will be able to try them out at select Best Buy stores starting May 7. Palmer Luckey, 24, creator of VR google Oculus Rift, which he sold to Facebook in 2014 for around $3 billion.

Zuckerberg quizzed at trial over VR technology

Facebook Inc chief executive Mark Zuckerberg took the witness stand in Dallas federal court yesterday and denied an allegation by a rival company that the virtual-reality technology of Facebook’s Oculus unit was stolen. Zuckerberg, the founder of one of the world’s largest companies, faced hours of tough, public questioning about where Oculus obtained its ideas and how much he knew about the startup when Facebook bought it for $2 billion.

Zuckerberg takes the stand to defend Oculus – CNET

It may be called virtual reality, but it cost real cash — and a lot more than Facebook initially let on. Mark Zuckerberg, the social networking giant’s CEO, said his company spent as much as $3 billion to buy Oculus VR, the high-flying startup that helped spark interest in the industry, according a reporter from The New York Times .