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07-01-2017, 09:07 AM
Ex-Oculus head donates money to mess with Facebook and Oculus
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Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus virtual reality, gave his old employers at Oculus and Facebook a huge middle finger this week by donating thousands of dollars to a VR project that makes Oculus-exclusive VR games playable on its competitor's VR device, the HTC Vive.
The creator behind Revive, a pet project aimed at breaking down exclusivity barriers for VR systems, confirmed Thursday (https://www.patreon.com/posts/thanks-palmer-2-12239793) that the big jump in donations per month on his Patreon came from Luckey.
SEE ALSO: 'Echo Arena' is the first VR game that made me forget I was real (http://mashable.com/2017/06/21/echo-arena-vr/)
Luckey parted ways (http://mashable.com/2017/04/22/palmer-luckey-after-facebook-oculus-comments/) with Oculus and Facebook in March following the revelation that he was a Donald Trump supporter (http://mashable.com/2016/09/23/palmer-luckey-trump-supporter-memes/) and had previously said some negative things (https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5350zf/i_am_a_nimble_rich_man_i_support_donald_j_trump/) about Hillary Clinton, according to The Daily Beast (http://www.thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-near-billionaire-secretly-funding-trumps-meme-machine?via=twitter_page). He later denied this after his departure. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/30/palmer-luckey-middle-finger/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus virtual reality, gave his old employers at Oculus and Facebook a huge middle finger this week by donating thousands of dollars to a VR project that makes Oculus-exclusive VR games playable on its competitor's VR device, the HTC Vive.
The creator behind Revive, a pet project aimed at breaking down exclusivity barriers for VR systems, confirmed Thursday (https://www.patreon.com/posts/thanks-palmer-2-12239793) that the big jump in donations per month on his Patreon came from Luckey.
SEE ALSO: 'Echo Arena' is the first VR game that made me forget I was real (http://mashable.com/2017/06/21/echo-arena-vr/)
Luckey parted ways (http://mashable.com/2017/04/22/palmer-luckey-after-facebook-oculus-comments/) with Oculus and Facebook in March following the revelation that he was a Donald Trump supporter (http://mashable.com/2016/09/23/palmer-luckey-trump-supporter-memes/) and had previously said some negative things (https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5350zf/i_am_a_nimble_rich_man_i_support_donald_j_trump/) about Hillary Clinton, according to The Daily Beast (http://www.thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-near-billionaire-secretly-funding-trumps-meme-machine?via=twitter_page). He later denied this after his departure. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/30/palmer-luckey-middle-finger/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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