Oculus Co-Founder and Rift Creator Palmer Luckey Departs Facebook

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by hturan • 9 years ago

30 8 9 years ago

I'm not a fan of Luckey's politics, but gosh I am super grateful for his work getting the Rift to production. I admire his persistence, his ability to assemble and obviously talented team.

I am sure he learned a lot from taking his garage prototype all the way through a billion dollar acquisition. And I hope he learned some things from his first dip into politics.

I look at someone like him, and though I can criticize his beliefs and actions, he's also a pretty normal kid who group up on YouTube and 4chan and is struggling with a pretty confusing soup of ideas, just like all of us. You never know what people are like on the inside, but I'm going to assume his heart is in the right place, and I look forward to seeing what he does next. I am absolutely certain he's caught glimpses of the VR future no one else has, and he'll do his darndest to bring them into the world.

aanm1988• 9 years ago

Sorry, don't feel sorry for the guy worth however many millions. He could have easily avoided all the negative stuff by just not getting involved.

edit: Thiel is one of the most prominent tech guys to support Trump. Zuckerberg defended him when people started calling for him to be removed.

The difference is that Luckey

1. was the face of the company 2. had issues with the community before any of the trump stuff came out. He pretty much stopped using Reddit because of it. 3. Is named in a lawsuit. 4. Supported Trump in a pretty childish way. Giving a donation or endorsing him is one thing. Trying to fund memes just looks bad.

For a guy who's main role seemed to be PR he did a poor job of it.

sahara3• 9 years ago

You're right, he could have continued with his work had he simply avoided ever giving anyone the impression he held any beliefs which varied from THE ORTHODOXY.

But why should that have been required of him?

Oculus Co-Founder and Rift Creator Palmer Luckey Departs Facebook

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