Hugo Barra leaves Xiaomi to land on Facebook – CNET in Spanish

Hugo Barra and Mark Zuckerberg, virtual reality.

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Hugo Barra, current vice president of international of Xiaomi, reported recently in the end of your cycle in the company with the goal of returning to “home” to Silicon Valley, even though without many plans and with a goal, rest. However, you may not have too much time, because Facebook wants among its ranks.

The own Mark Zuckerberg, ceo of Facebook, announced via his profile on the social network Bar will join soon the team of virtual reality of the company. The current international vice president of Xiaomi will be vice-president of virtual reality on Facebook, and will lead the efforts of Oculus.

“I Am thrilled that Hugo Barra is a to Facebook to lead all of our efforts in virtual reality, including our team Oculus. Hugo is in China right now, so that we are together in RL. It seems appropriate,” Zuckerberg wrote on his profile, who posted the image you see above.

The founder of Facebook said that known to the Bar from his days in Android, and that has also admired his work in Xiaomi to bring innovative devices to millions of people.

“Hugo shares my belief that the virtual and augmented reality will be the next computing platform important. Allow us to experience things completely new and be more creative than ever. Hugo is going to help build that future, and I’m looking forward to having him in our team”, said Zuckerberg.

Barra said in her profile of Facebook: “I’m really excited!”, although not without reflecting on her new position. “The chairman and ceo of Xiaomi, Lei Jun, always says that the maximum duty of an engineer is to make their technological innovations are quickly and easily available to the broadest spectrum of humanity as possible. This will be my mission on Facebook, and epero order to build the future of the technology immersive with Mark Zuckerberg, Brendan Iribe Trexler, Mike Schroepfer, and the visionaries of the computer Oculus”.

The signing in Bar reaches right in the middle of the maelstrom of a lawsuit against Oculus, which is currently being investigated for possibly having stolen some ideas to the company Zenimax, which allowed it to create its virtual reality technology, something that happened before Facebook was acquired.

During the trial, in which Zuckerberg had to declare, the chairman and ceo of Facebook said that the company has planned to invest US$ 3,000 million in the next decade to advance virtual reality, and to do that it reaches the masses.