Max Cohen, vice president of mobile at Oculus.
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Oculus mobile VR leader leaves Facebook

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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There’s a changing of the guard in the leadership at Oculus VR, the division that Facebook acquired for $3 billion in 2014. Max Cohen, former head of mobile VR, is leaving the company at the end of the month.

Cohen started as the vice president of mobile in 2014, and he led the Gear VR program in partnership with Samsung. He also led the development of the Oculus Go and began the initial work on the Oculus Quest, which just launched.

Nate Mitchell, the last remaining founder at Oculus, also left Facebook this summer. He was preceded by the departures of Oculus founders Brendan Iribe and Palmer Luckey. Cohen announced he was “pursuing new skills and incubating ideas” on his LinkedIn page.

Facebook confirmed his departure. At the time he left, Cohen was on the AR/VR team heading up product management for media.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.