Xiaomi's Hugo Barra joining Facebook as VP of VR team

Former Xiaomi and Google executive Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead its virtual reality efforts, including Oculus team.

In a Facebook post today Morning, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Barra's joining saying, “I'm excited that Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead all of our virtual reality efforts, including our Oculus team. Hugo's in China right now, so here we are together in VR. It seems fitting.”

Hugo joining Facebook will push forward Zuckerberg’s envision to grow the virtual realty platform on the social media website.

“Hugo shares my belief that virtual and augmented reality will be the next major computing platform. They'll enable us to experience completely new things and be more creative than ever before. Hugo is going to help build that future, and I'm looking forward to having him on our team,” Zuckerberg added.

Minutes after, Barra also took to both the social media websites, Facebook and Twitter, to confirm the announcement made by Zuckerberg.

He posted: “I’m excited to share my next adventure as I return to Silicon Valley—I'll be joining Facebook as VP of virtual reality (VPVR!) and lead the Oculus team. 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.”