Meta’s VP of VR/MR, Mark Rabkin, is leaving the corporate in March, citing “household well being points”.
Rabkin has been at Meta for 18 years, having joined as a software program engineer engaged on adverts again in 2007, and has led the Quest headset and Horizon OS groups at Meta for simply over 4 years, since simply after the launch of Quest 2.
“I actually tried to sort out each the house and work challenges directly […] however, in my coronary heart I do know clearly that I’ve to pause and deal with an important board in entrance of me: the house one”, Rabkin writes in his departing be aware, shared on Fb.
Regardless of these household challenges, Rabkin describes 2024 as “a fairly superb work 12 months”, highlighting the numerous 2D window positioning upgrades his groups dropped at Horizon OS, in addition to the opening up of the shop and launch of Batman: Arkham Shadow.
“By means of the 12 months, I actually tried to sort out each the house and work challenges directly. And it was a fairly superb work 12 months. We launched our superb Quest 3S headset, so many unbelievable issues within the OS (2D apps! Spatial Computing OS + UX! Open Retailer! Media! Batman!), and in addition cooked up some disruptive, beautiful innovation for the long run. I had a lifetime honor to current our imaginative and prescient at Join.
However, in my coronary heart I do know clearly that I’ve to pause and deal with an important board in entrance of me: the house one. I’m going to be leaving Meta and taking a major interval off from working to deal with that and make it go pretty much as good as I could make it. It’s the hardest of calls. It’s additionally the fitting one.”
He goes on to explain presenting Meta’s imaginative and prescient for Horizon OS at Join 2024 as a “lifetime honor”, and references unannounced “disruptive, beautiful innovation for the long run”.
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Meta is not but saying who will take his place, although Rabkin instructed Meta Actuality Labs workers that Vishal Shah, Meta’s VP Of Metaverse, will “share the good plan he already has in retailer for the position and its timing very quickly.”
“MR/VR/XR/AR devs and followers – I’ll depart you in good arms. Extra to come back.”, Rabkin says in a put up on X.
On Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg referred to as Rabkin’s tenure at Meta an “superb run”, and stated that he is “welcome again anytime”, suggesting Rabkin might someday return to Meta Actuality Labs.
