While Luckey tends to attract all the headlines, it has been Iribe who did a lot of the dirty work on Oculus. His exit means the VR company is splitting its mobile-based and PC-based VR divisions more cleanly.

Iribe will lead the PC side, while Jon Thomason, who was formerly VP of Engineering at Qualcomm for five years and then VP of Mobile Shipping at Amazon before joining Oculus as Head of Software in August of this year, will head up the mobile division. Iribe and Thomason, along with Mike Schroepfer, CTO of Facebook, will reportedly all work together to find a new leader for Oculus VR.

Last week the company launched the Oculus Touch controllers, the long-awaited solution to hand-tracking for their Oculus Rift headset.

Iribe said that the cunning plan was to establish new PC and mobile VR groups to be more focused, strengthen development and accelerate the roadmap.

“Looking ahead and thinking about where I’m most passionate, I’ve decided to lead the PC VR group—pushing the state of VR forward with Rift, research and computer vision. As we’ve grown, I really missed the deep, day-to-day involvement in building a brand-new product on the leading edge of technology,” he said.

Nate Mitchell will be leading Rift, on Brendan’s PC VR team. Michael Abrash still leads Oculus Research on Brendan’s team.

CTO John Carmack and Michael Antonov, Chief Software Architect, Oculus PR are still at Oculus and they work on the mobile team. Michael Antonov is leading the Carmel and ReactVR effort today.