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Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe steps aside as company shuffles structure for mobile and PC VR groups

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Facebook’s Oculus VR division is expanding its efforts to do both mobile and PC virtual reality systems. And the company is searching for a new leader to replace Brendan Iribe, who is stepping down from the top position to run the PC VR division.

Iribe, the current CEO of Oculus VR, will now be head of the PC VR division at Oculus. Meanwhile, former Microsoft technologist Jon Thomason will move from head of software at Oculus to run the mobile VR group. Iribe said the company has decided to create new PC and mobile VR groups to be “more focused, strengthen development, and accelerate our roadmap.” The top job at Oculus, supervising both Iribe and Thomason, is still open.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. 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.