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Hugo Barra

12 articles accelerating

Hugo Barra has appeared in 12 articles since 2015-07. Coverage peaked in 2017Q1 with 4 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside David Singleton, Facebook, Xiaomi, Dreamer.

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12
mentions
Velocity
+200.0%
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Acceleration
+2.000
velocity change
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8
publications

Coverage Timeline

2026-03-24
Bloomberg 10 related

Meta hires the team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents, including Hugo Barra, former Stripe CTO David Singleton, and designer Nicholas Jitkoff

Meta Platforms Inc. has hired the founders and team behind the artificial intelligence startup Dreamer, which launched earlier …

2026-03-23
Bloomberg 4 related

Meta hires the team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents, including Hugo Barra, former Stripe CTO David Singleton, and designer Nicholas Jitkoff

Meta Platforms Inc. has hired the founders and team behind the artificial intelligence startup Dreamer, which launched earlier …

2026-02-18
flurries of latent creativity 2 related

Dreamer, founded by former Stripe CTO David Singleton, Hugo Barra, and others, launches in beta to let technical and non-technical users build agentic AI apps

Dreamer is the name of the platform and company I started with Hugo, Nicholas and others a little over a year ago.

2025-04-11
The Verge 4 related

Sonos appoints software veteran Hugo Barra to its board, replacing Mike Volpi, who is stepping down after 15 years; Barra is /dev/agents' Chief Product Officer

Chris Welch / The Verge :

2024-11-26
Bloomberg 2 related

/dev/agents, which plans to build a cloud-based OS for AI agents that can work across phones, laptops, and cars, raised $56M, a source says at a $500M valuation

Former Google, Stripe Executives Raise $56 Million for AI Agent Startup www.bloomberg.com/news/article... X: Shirin Ghaffary / @shiringhaffary : NEW: A group of leaders who helped build the Android pl...

2024-03-14
Hugo's Blog 6 related

A deep dive into Vision Pro by Meta's ex-VP of VR Hugo Barra: the audacity of Apple's hardware decisions, a dull software story, how Meta can respond, and more

Friends and colleagues have been asking me to share my perspective on the Apple Vision Pro as a product.

2021-05-18
The Verge 3 related

Facebook's VP of Reality Labs Partnerships Hugo Barra says he is leaving the company after four years and that he plans to explore the healthcare tech space

He's departing before the company launches the smart glasses he teased last fall  —  Facebook's vice president of AR and VR Hugo Barra …

2019-05-10
The Verge 10 related

The lead of Oculus VR, Hugo Barra, says he is taking a new role at Facebook “building a global AR/VR partner ecosystem”; Erick Tseng to take over Oculus

bringing AR and VR to more people!

2018-12-20
UploadVR 5 related

Facebook open sources its DeepFocus VR research, which aims to create ultra-realistic visuals for eye-tracking headsets

including its code and the data set we used to train it—so the wider VR community can accelerate their research. http://twitter.com/... @fb_engineering : Facebook Reality Labs has built DeepFocus, a n...

2017-01-30
Bloomberg

Hugo Barra played a key role in Xiaomi's India expansion, a business that now accounts for $1B/year revenue, but other global efforts he oversaw largely stalled

Barra departs Beijing smartphone maker to lead Facebook VR  —  Xiaomi struggled with global expansion, competition at home

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Quarterly Coverage

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TEXXR tracks 10 Techmeme articles mentioning Hugo Barra, dating back to January 2017. The biggest stories include Hugo Barra to lead all of Facebook's virtual reality efforts including Oculus team and Hugo Barra steps down as international vice president at Xiaomi, will remain an advisor,.... Frequently covered alongside David Singleton, Dreamer, Facebook, Meta, and Stripe CTO. Coverage has increasingly focused on competition themes.

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2026Q1competition +67pts

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