Meta’s VP of XR, Mark Rabkin, is departing the corporate after main its XR efforts for greater than 4 years. Rabkin cites household well being points as the first driver for his departure.
Immediately Mark Rabkin introduced his plan to depart the corporate in March. In his public announcement he mentioned, “devs and followers [of XR]—I’ll depart you in good arms. Extra to return.” Which seemingly means we’ll quickly study who will take over the function in his place.
As Meta’s VP of XR for the final 4 years, Rabkin oversaw the launch of Quest 3, Quest 3S, and the newest platform developments, like Quest’s software program rebranding to Horizon OS, the assimilation of App Lab into the Horizon OS retailer, and a major push towards combined actuality and spatial computing on the corporate’s headsets.
Although Rabkin was VP of XR for some 4 years, he says he’s been at Meta for 18 in complete, the place he had began in 2007 as a “rowdy, barely cocky, fresh-faced backend infrastructure C++ engineer in my twenties.”
In response to his LinkedIn, Rabkin labored his method as much as VP positions over the next decade. He joined the XR aspect of the corporate in 2019, first because the VP of XR Experiences earlier than ultimately changing into the VP of XR general.
