It's interesting that he's joining Facebook, not Oculus. Oculus is just a "team" now.
Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality
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Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality
#12http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Hugo+barra
I'm on this site a lot and don't know who this is. It would help if someone actually provided context in a comment so readers can understand why this made it to the front page. Your response to Google it is juvenile and doesn't add to the discussion.
I'm on this site a lot, I know who it is and I understand why it made to the front page. It would help everyone (you included) if you try Google first whenever someone (or something) you don't know is mentioned in a discussion. Even if you search for previous mentions of Hugo Barra on Hacker News, you'd learn that stories mentioning his leaving Xiaomi have made the frontpage in the last few days [1]. As a person who is on this site a lot, I'm surprised that you aren't familiar with him.
Let's not even get into what is (or isn't) juvenile at this point.
Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality
#13Smart hire - Barra is a great hardware evangelist, quite technical and was a great personality for Xiaomi that wasn't a typical "technical" person so could appeal to the masses. Oculus/FB really needs that.
Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality
#14So much for "hard work was affecting my health".
Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sigh. Clearly something has fallen down the hype cycle.
HN often seems to pretty much exist of a long stream of Names we're all apparently supposed to know and track.
Some of these execs keep a high public profile and do a lot of press. It's part of the game at most large tech companies that aren't Apple. I personally find it really amusing that they get all this coverage in the tech press almost like they are NBA players, but it's to be expected when they have such a high public profile. Funnily enough, as accomplished as he is and despite the carefully curated PR, I remember him most for being the other part of that Sergey love triangle: http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/04/sergey-brin-amanda-r...
Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality
#16So much for "hard work was affecting my health".
More like Beijing air pollution was affecting his health. That was my reason as well, moving from Microsoft in Beijing to YC Research in LA.
Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality
#17" 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". Ouch!
I wouldn't take Palmer for a guy that's hurt by this. He became richer than his wildest dreams and doesn't have to take shit from anybody. He's probably too busy trying to develop a healthy lifestyle that helps him keep the friends he wants to care for some corporate politics like this to register. Let them take the attention, he'll find another venue for his engineering itches.
Michael Abrash, and Palmer Luckey should move to Texas where Carmack is and co-found an Oculus successor. They could raise $500 million easily based on their recent $2 billion exit, or however much they would need. They could probably also hire away the very best people who wouldn't want to work at Facebook given the choice.
Carmack probably doesn't give a shit about Palmer's political tom foolery. All three of these guys don't get the respect they deserve because they not born rich and didn't attend fancy schools like Zuck and this guy.
Those douches claims to fame are creating knock offs of Friendster and iOS.
Palmer Luckey made consumer VR happen. Carmack/Abrash made internet FPS worlds happen. They weren't copying anyone.
Iribe is not needed, nor are any of the other douches that jumped on the bandwagon. Free the visionaries. Shit, they could fund it themselves with that Facebook cash.
Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN often seems to pretty much exist of a long stream of Names we're all apparently supposed to know and track.
Some of these execs keep a high public profile and do a lot of press. It's part of the game at most large tech companies that aren't Apple. I personally find it really amusing that they get all this coverage in the tech press almost like they are NBA players, but it's to be expected when they have such a high public profile. Funnily enough, as accomplished as he is and despite the carefully curated PR, I remember him…
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Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality
#19" 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". Ouch!
I wouldn't take Palmer for a guy that's hurt by this. He became richer than his wildest dreams and doesn't have to take shit from anybody. He's probably too busy trying to develop a healthy lifestyle that helps him keep the friends he wants to care for some corporate politics like this to register. Let them take the attention, he'll find another venue for his engineering itches.
Ram jets
Re: Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality
#20So much for "hard work was affecting my health".
More like Beijing air pollution was affecting his health. That was my reason as well, moving from Microsoft in Beijing to YC Research in LA.
That's amusing in that the LA basin had an infamous "smog cap" for a good stretch of the XX century. Helped a lot getting those seminal strict emission laws in California, I believe.