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Senior leader at Facebook's Oculus arrested after allegedly soliciting sex from cop posing as underage girl

Matt Weinberger   

Senior leader at Facebook's Oculus arrested after allegedly soliciting sex from cop posing as underage girl
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Dov Katz, head of computer vision at Oculus VR

Dov Katz, a senior leader at Facebook's Oculus VR virtual reality subsidiary, has been arrested after allegedly soliciting sex from a police officer posing as an underage girl, reports Seattle's King 5 news.

According to King 5's report, Katz has been charged with "communicating with a minor for immoral purposes." Katz reportedly responded to a personal ad placed by an undercover police officer who was posing as a 15-year-old girl, offering her $360 for sex without a condom.

At Oculus, Katz is the head of computer vision - the technology for allowing cameras to see and understand objects in the real world. He's been with Oculus since mid-2014, according to his LinkedIn profile, just a few months after Facebook bought the company for $2 billion.

Earlier this year, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey landed in hot water for his reported financial ties to "alt-right" and white nationalist groups.

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