Oculus says Palmer Luckey's new role within the company will be revealed 'soon'
Brendan Iribe stepped down as CEO earlier today.
Following the news that Brendan Iribe stepped down as Oculus CEO to lead Facebook's VR team, UploadVR asked a company spokesperson for word on whether or not Palmer Luckey will remain with the company.
"Palmer is still at Oculus and we’ll have more to share on his new role soon," the representative answered.
Palmer Luckey was the public face of Oculus and its Rift VR headset until last September, when The Daily Beast revealed his involvement with a propaganda group that supported Donald Trump's successful bid for the American presidency.
Luckey has been uncharacteristically silent on social media since the story broke, surfacing only to issue an apology—but not for the pro-Trump memes he helped propagate.
"I am deeply sorry that my actions are negatively impacting the perception of Oculus and its partners," he wrote in his statement. "The recent news stories about me do not accurately represent my views."
Despite his silence, Luckey does remain with Oculus, which he and other executives sold to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014.
[Source: UploadVR]
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replyDavid Craddock posted a new article, Oculus says Palmer Luckey's new role within the company will be revealed 'soon'
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^^This is so good^^
Props my man.
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So, what's the deal with Palmer? He obviously doesn't strike me as an actual Trump supporter. Was it all literally just "for the lols" as the brethren of Harambe would say? Is he then the actual worst person, given that Trump miraculously won?
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He's an actual trump supporter that may or may not have had a significant impact on the outcome of the election.
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10k for dank memes is nothing to someone with a net worth of $900 million.
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But it's not nothing, especially to that organization I'd imagine. It's $10k! Does Palmer donate to a lot of charities/causes "recklessly" shall we say?
I don't get that guy except that he seems to make bad decisions. If he's a true believer then that's a whole other thing.-
Dude probably blows $200k in Vegas during CES. I agree that he screwed up royally.
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Being able to casually blow $200k and also a Trump supporter is a terrible Venn diagram to be included in, lol.
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It is all about Harambe.
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What's the functional difference?
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That guy was filmed at a trump rally, said he talked to and tried to convince trump to run, has spent 10k secretly on financing shit posts and trolls, made some really fucking douchey/dumb posts on reddit and his girl friends was an avid poster of racist/redneck batshit insane pro trump shit on twitter. It's safe to say that he is a trump supporter.
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Palmer Luckey strikes me as the type of person who doesn't really know how to interact with other people, but he found a community of people online that shares a lot of his social anxieties and societal frustrations and has made him feel welcome and included in a way that he hasn't been able to achieve in reality.
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You can't just have a different political opinion you must be destroyed as an example to others.
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Like I implied, it's not about him it's about people that don't have a billion dollars.
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you really understand this situation well I see
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Eppur si muove,
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It was that all his political nonsense came after months of early Occulus supporters getting fucked over. Then on top of that, all the exclusivity bullshit. People were hating him before that. It was a new thing every 2 weeks that was a PR nightmare, followed by him supporting trolling people for Trump. Fuck that guy.
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Lay off (beta)
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