Tag: Luckey

11 MAY

Ousted Oculus founder Palmer Luckey says he had to ‘restrain’ himself at Facebook, predicts VR will take years to catch on (FB)

Robert Galbraith/Reuters In his first interview since leaving Facebook in late March, Oculus cofounder Palmer Luckey said he felt restrained while working for the social network, which acquired his virtual reality startup for $ 3 billion in 2014. 24-year-old Luckey was sidelined at Facebook last year after it was revealed that he had secretly funded a Conservative […]

20 APR

Palmer Luckey Backs Trump With Shell Companies Using Chrono Trigger Names

Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey, who last year spent a lot of money helping Donald Trump get elected, has since spent a lot of money helping Trump throw some big parties. As reported by Mother Jones, Luckey—who last year tried to deny he was a Trump supporter—has since donated $ 100,000 to Trump’s inauguration committee, […]

31 MAR

How Palmer Luckey, the tech CEO who sold his startup to Facebook for $2 billion, became the company’s black sheep (FB)

Oculus VR Palmer Luckey isn’t your average 24-year-old.  He founded Oculus VR, the headset company that’s been described countless times as the future of virtual reality. Facebook, which acquired Oculus for $ 2 billion in 2014, sees its software as the big computing platform of the next 10 years. Luckey was on a path to greatness as the […]