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09-26-2016, 01:14 AM
Oculus chiefs speak out on Palmer Luckey's alleged funding of anti-Clinton memes
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The revelation that Oculus Rift inventor Palmer Luckey is a Donald Trump supporter (http://mashable.com/2016/09/23/palmer-luckey-trump-supporter-memes/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) hasn't exactly gone un**ticed (http://mashable.com/2016/09/23/palmer-luckey-web-reactions/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and **w two of the key players at Oculus have addressed the matter directly in a pair of statements.
SEE ALSO: Zuckerberg Wishes Facebook Could Have Built VR Without Oculus (http://mashable.com/2016/08/17/zuckerberg-wanted-to-build-vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The first is from CEO Brendan Iribe, who took care to distance the company from Luckey's political leanings while also supporting his right to have a privately help political opinion. Iribe posted the statement on his Facebook page.
The other statement comes from Oculus Head of Content Jason Rubin. This one more directly addresses a statement that Luckey himself shared on Friday. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/25/palmer-luckey-trump-oculus-statement/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Donald Trump (http://mashable.com/category/donald-trump/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Oculus (http://mashable.com/category/oculus/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Palmer Luckey (http://mashable.com/category/palmer-luckey/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Gaming (http://mashable.com/gaming/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Entertainment (http://mashable.com/entertainment/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/wcFGj-dQr6U
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The revelation that Oculus Rift inventor Palmer Luckey is a Donald Trump supporter (http://mashable.com/2016/09/23/palmer-luckey-trump-supporter-memes/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) hasn't exactly gone un**ticed (http://mashable.com/2016/09/23/palmer-luckey-web-reactions/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and **w two of the key players at Oculus have addressed the matter directly in a pair of statements.
SEE ALSO: Zuckerberg Wishes Facebook Could Have Built VR Without Oculus (http://mashable.com/2016/08/17/zuckerberg-wanted-to-build-vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The first is from CEO Brendan Iribe, who took care to distance the company from Luckey's political leanings while also supporting his right to have a privately help political opinion. Iribe posted the statement on his Facebook page.
The other statement comes from Oculus Head of Content Jason Rubin. This one more directly addresses a statement that Luckey himself shared on Friday. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/25/palmer-luckey-trump-oculus-statement/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Donald Trump (http://mashable.com/category/donald-trump/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Oculus (http://mashable.com/category/oculus/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Palmer Luckey (http://mashable.com/category/palmer-luckey/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Gaming (http://mashable.com/gaming/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Entertainment (http://mashable.com/entertainment/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/wcFGj-dQr6U