Regina Dugan, the head of Facebook’s secretive hardware unit, will step down early next year, she said on Tuesday.
“I will be leaving Facebook to focus on building and leading a new endeavor,” Dugan wrote on Facebook.
Earlier this year, Facebook (FB) provided a peek into the hardware division, called Building 8, revealing it was studying ways for people to communicate by thought and touch.
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Although any hardware rollouts from the unit are years away, potential products could help the social media giant lower its heavy reliance on advertising revenue.
Dugan, a former chief of the Pentagon’s research arm, has also led a similar hardware group at Alphabet’s Google.