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What happened to Palmer Luckey? I haven't been keeping up with the Oculus news for a while.

by andruby 10y ago

nacs 10y ago
A story is linked within the article that explains what happened: https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/26/why-is-the-oculus-founder-trying-to-bring-hateful-memes-offline/ https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/26/why-is-the-oculus-founde...
- andruby 10y ago
  Ok, he made a misstep. Is he still active at Oculus? What's his role nowadays?
  - cookiecaper 10y ago
    A misstep? That article is an embarrassing hit piece like the many others that have been written about anyone who is willing to even slightly countenance the concept that anything tangentially Trump-related can be legitimate, just like the hits on Thiel. The Silicon Valley shame machine is an utter and complete disgrace.
cookiecaper 10y ago
I hadn't heard about how people are crucifying him for donating to an organization that was vaguely pro-Trump (which speaks to how bad SV is, not Palmer), but prior to that, the announcement of CV1 really hurt his reputation in the community. It was everything he said it wouldn't be, and very little he said it would be. Since he's active on Reddit, people went through his comment history and found all the occasions he made comments that the CV1 would be something it wasn't, or wouldn't be something it was, and confronted him. He basically said "things change" and everyone was very mad at him. He responded to a few things like a typical reddit user which is never good damage control when reddit is having a meltdown over your conduct. People were also very upset about the Facebook buyout, which I remember hearing took the Oculus execs by surprise. Palmer has not been popular with the community as Oculus has transitioned from a Kickstarter project to a grown-up company that got acquired for $2B. I personally think people are way too harsh on him, and that their expectations were unrealistic.

What happened to Palmer Luckey? I haven't been keeping up with the Oculus news for a while.

by andruby 10y ago

What happened to Palmer Luckey? I haven't been keeping up with the Oculus news for a while.

nacs 10y ago

A story is linked within the article that explains what happened: https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/26/why-is-the-oculus-founder-trying-to-bring-hateful-memes-offline/ https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/26/why-is-the-oculus-founde...

andruby 10y ago
Ok, he made a misstep. Is he still active at Oculus? What's his role nowadays?
- cookiecaper 10y ago
  A misstep? That article is an embarrassing hit piece like the many others that have been written about anyone who is willing to even slightly countenance the concept that anything tangentially Trump-related can be legitimate, just like the hits on Thiel. The Silicon Valley shame machine is an utter and complete disgrace.

cookiecaper 10y ago

I hadn't heard about how people are crucifying him for donating to an organization that was vaguely pro-Trump (which speaks to how bad SV is, not Palmer), but prior to that, the announcement of CV1 really hurt his reputation in the community. It was everything he said it wouldn't be, and very little he said it would be. Since he's active on Reddit, people went through his comment history and found all the occasions he made comments that the CV1 would be something it wasn't, or wouldn't be something it was, and confronted him. He basically said "things change" and everyone was very mad at him. He responded to a few things like a typical reddit user which is never good damage control when reddit is having a meltdown over your conduct. People were also very upset about the Facebook buyout, which I remember hearing took the Oculus execs by surprise. Palmer has not been popular with the community as Oculus has transitioned from a Kickstarter project to a grown-up company that got acquired for $2B. I personally think people are way too harsh on him, and that their expectations were unrealistic.