Two pieces of information from Facebook sources have given us new insight into the division of labor inside the social media giant.
Words spoken by Oculus team’s head of PC VR Brendan Iribe and a passage from Facebook’s quarterly report indicate more than five percent of the company’s total workforce are devoted to virtual reality in some capacity.
This week, Facebook filed its quarterly report. In that report is a figure relating to the company’s size and how it has grown over the last year. According to the report, “headcount was 18,770 as of March 31, 2017, an increase of 38 percent year-over-year.”
Facebook declines to comment on the size of its individual teams as a matter…