Oculus founder working on surveillance tech startup to help guard Trump's border wall

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Oculus founder working on surveillance tech startup to help guard Trump's border wall
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If you thought the pioneering founder of virtual reality company Oculus (http://mashable.com/category/oculus/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Palmer Luckey, was just going to fade into the shadows with his Facebook money, think again.*

While recent reports indicated that his second act might be a gaming company (http://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-founder-wants-to-make-vr-game-with-serious-consequences-permadeath-sword-art-online/), it turns out that he's also working on a security company that has an omi**usly familiar mission: policing immigration border walls.*

SEE ALSO: Oculus founder thinks this wild anime film is the likely future of AR (http://mashable.com/2017/05/23/oculus-founder-anime-future-of-augmented-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)


Details about Luckey's new startup were revealed on Sunday night in a report (https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/business/oculus-palmer-luckey-new-start-up.html) from the New York Times that cites at least three "people familiar" with the VR expert's plans.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/04/palmer-luckey-surveillance-tech-startup-trump-wall/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)

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