“We’re excited to have him leading the hardware organization,” an Oculus spokesperson told Fortune in an email. Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s technology newsletter. He will report to Oculus chief operating officer Hans Hartmann, who joined the virtual reality unit in May 2016 after serving as COO at fitness gadget maker Fitbit.
Hillman left Apple (AAPL) in 2015 and became a vice president at the robotics startup Zoox, where he worked for a little over a year, according to his LinkedIn profile. He eventually became the chief architect for all of Apple’s desktop computers, according to Bloomberg News, which first reported the news. Oculus said Monday that it hired Michael Hillman, a 15-year Apple veteran who helped manage several of the technology giant’s big hardware projects like its iMac personal computers.
