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 advertisements 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 give attention to crucial board in entrance of me: the house one”, Rabkin writes in his departing notice, shared on Fb.
Regardless of these household challenges, Rabkin describes 2024 as “a reasonably wonderful work yr”, highlighting the numerous 2D window positioning upgrades his groups delivered to Horizon OS, in addition to the opening up of the shop and launch of Batman: Arkham Shadow.
“Via the yr, I actually tried to sort out each the house and work challenges directly. And it was a reasonably wonderful work yr. We launched our wonderful 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, gorgeous 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 give attention to crucial board in entrance of me: the house one. I’m going to be leaving Meta and taking a big interval off from working to give attention to that and make it go nearly as good as I could make it. It’s the hardest of calls. It’s additionally the suitable 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, gorgeous innovation for the long run”.
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Meta is not but saying who will take his place, although Rabkin advised Meta Actuality Labs employees that Vishal Shah, Meta’s VP Of Metaverse, will “share the nice plan he already has in retailer for the position and its timing very quickly.”
“MR/VR/XR/AR devs and followers – I’ll go away you in good palms. Extra to come back.”, Rabkin says in a put up on X.
On Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg known as Rabkin’s tenure at Meta an “wonderful run”, and mentioned that he is “welcome again anytime”, suggesting Rabkin could in the future return to Meta Actuality Labs.
