Facebook's 'screen queen' leaving Oculus

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is losing its "screen queen."

Mary Lou Jepsen, who heads up display technology for Facebook's Oculus VR division, plans to leave in August to work on imaging technologies to aid in treating and curing disease.

"I have decided to leave Facebook and Oculus to work on curing diseases using some new imaging technologies I've been incubating for awhile," Jepsen said during a keynote talk at the Anita Borg Institute's Women of Vision awards in Santa Clara, Calif., on Thursday evening.

Jepsen, part of Facebook's ambitious push into virtual reality, said she planned to work on shrinking down MRI machines into wearable consumer devices which would have the ability to treat cancer and other diseases, according to Tech Insider. Jepsen also mentioned that she had joined the board of directors of an automotive company to help "steer the transformation of transportation."

Oculus launched its Rift virtual-reality headset earlier this year. Facebook bought Oculus in 2014 for $2 billion. 

"We wish Mary Lou all the best as she pursues her passion to change the world with next-generation medical technologies," Facebook said in an emailed statement. "We're very excited to see what she invents next."