Longtime Facebook executive Mike Schroepfer said Wednesday he would step down as the company’s chief technology officer.
Schroepfer said in a Facebook post that veteran leader Andrew Bosworth, who leads the social media company’s augmented reality and virtual reality efforts, including products like the Oculus Quest VR headset, will take over the role in 2022 will.
Schroepfer, known as “Schrep” who has spent 13 years on Facebook, said he will move to a part-time position as the company’s first senior fellow at some point next year.
Bosworth or “Boz” founded Facebook’s AR / VR organization, which was renamed Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) in 2020.
“As our next CTO, Boz will continue to lead Facebook Reality Labs and oversee our work in augmented reality, virtual reality and more. Message to Employees posted on the Facebook blog.
“All of this is fundamental to our broader efforts to build the Metaverse, and I look forward to the future of this work under Boz’s leadership,” he said, referring to Silicon Valley’s idea of creating common spaces that embrace the digital and the physical world merge and can be accessed through various devices.
Facebook is under pressure from global regulators, lawmakers and civil society groups who have criticized it for abuses on its platform such as extremism and misinformation and want it to improve a number of issues such as transparency, its content moderation and recommendation systems and approaches. to the privacy and security of users.
The company has advanced its role in building an embodied Internet, or “metaverse,” which Zuckerberg is betting will be the next major computing platform.
In July, the company announced that it was building a new product team as part of Facebook Reality Labs to work on these ambitions.
Zuckerberg said Schroepfer’s new role would be to help the company recruit and develop technical talent, and encourage investment in artificial intelligence.
Other key executives who have left the company in the past few months include the boss of the Facebook app, Fidji Simo, who has moved as CEO of Instacart, and global advertising director Carolyn Everson, who has been hired as president of the start-up.
Schroepfer said in a Facebook post that veteran leader Andrew Bosworth, who leads the social media company’s augmented reality and virtual reality efforts, including products like the Oculus Quest VR headset, will take over the role in 2022 will.
Schroepfer, known as “Schrep” who has spent 13 years on Facebook, said he will move to a part-time position as the company’s first senior fellow at some point next year.
Bosworth or “Boz” founded Facebook’s AR / VR organization, which was renamed Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) in 2020.
“As our next CTO, Boz will continue to lead Facebook Reality Labs and oversee our work in augmented reality, virtual reality and more. Message to Employees posted on the Facebook blog.
“All of this is fundamental to our broader efforts to build the Metaverse, and I look forward to the future of this work under Boz’s leadership,” he said, referring to Silicon Valley’s idea of creating common spaces that embrace the digital and the physical world merge and can be accessed through various devices.
Facebook is under pressure from global regulators, lawmakers and civil society groups who have criticized it for abuses on its platform such as extremism and misinformation and want it to improve a number of issues such as transparency, its content moderation and recommendation systems and approaches. to the privacy and security of users.
The company has advanced its role in building an embodied Internet, or “metaverse,” which Zuckerberg is betting will be the next major computing platform.
In July, the company announced that it was building a new product team as part of Facebook Reality Labs to work on these ambitions.
Zuckerberg said Schroepfer’s new role would be to help the company recruit and develop technical talent, and encourage investment in artificial intelligence.
Other key executives who have left the company in the past few months include the boss of the Facebook app, Fidji Simo, who has moved as CEO of Instacart, and global advertising director Carolyn Everson, who has been hired as president of the start-up.
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