{"id":98921,"date":"2019-08-22T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/349256"},"modified":"2019-08-22T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T13:42:00","slug":"oculus-former-head-of-mobile-vr-has-left-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/22\/oculus-former-head-of-mobile-vr-has-left-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Oculus&#8217; former head of mobile VR has left Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another high-profile member of the Oculus family has left Facebook, with the company&#8217;s former head of mobile VR, Max Cohen, departing the company this month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cohen joined Oculus back in 2014 as the VP of mobile, and led the Gear VR program and partnership with Samsung. During his half-decade stint at the VR outfit &#8212;&nbsp;which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/213895\/Facebook_to_acquire_Oculus_for_2_billion.php\">acquired by Facebook&nbsp; for $2 billion in 2014<\/a> &#8212;&nbsp;he also led the development of the Oculus Go and started the Oculus Quest program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not the first notable Oculus staffer to leave the social media giant, with co-founders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/329120\/Oculus_cofounder_Brendan_Iribe_leaves_Facebook.php\">Brendan Iribe<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/348649\/Oculus_cofounder_Nate_Mitchell_departs_Facebook.php\">Nate Mitchell<\/a>&nbsp;having also moved&nbsp;on in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear exactly why Cohen left Facebook, although an update to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/maxdcohen\/?src=aff-lilpar&amp;veh=aff_src.aff-lilpar_c.partners_pkw.10078_plc.Skimbit%20Ltd._pcrid.449670_learning&amp;trk=aff_src.aff-lilpar_c.partners_pkw.10078_plc.Skimbit%20Ltd._pcrid.449670_learning&amp;clickid=0l0zNuQng1ybzwh3e13jh1IgUklXmoQVGQJgWA0&amp;irgwc=1\">Linkedin profile<\/a> explains he&#8217;s taking some time out to &#8220;pursue new skills and incubate ideas.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another high-profile member of the Oculus family has left Facebook, with the company&#8217;s former head of mobile VR, Max Cohen, departing the company this month.&nbsp; Cohen joined Oculus back in 2014 as the VP of mobile, and led the Gear VR program and partnership with Samsung. During his half-decade stint at the VR outfit &#8212;&nbsp;which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}