Facebook loses Oculus executive who directed his virtual reality efforts on mobile

Cohen joined Oculus as vice president of mobile telephony just weeks before the Facebook acquisition and has led several projects over the years. He led the Gear VR program and the Samsung partnership with Oculus, as well as the development of the Oculus Go VR standalone headset. In addition, he launched the Oculus Quest program, which gave birth to a stand-alone headset capable of playing desktop virtual reality games.

What Cohen's departure means for Oculus remains to be seen. As Variety Note that Facebook will host the Oculus Connect developer conference on September 25th and 26th. The social network should reveal its plans for virtual and augmented reality, so we will probably hear about some of the projects that Oculus is working on during the event.