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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by daenz on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @02:51PM (#24202658)
A combination of his past successes with Oculus, Facebook's track record, and his extraordinarily high confidence that the thing lots of people were afraid would happen, wouldn't happen
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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by entropicdrifter on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:05PM (#24203693)
His success was largely as an engineer hacking together prototypes and as a hype man, pulling in the interest of bigger names like John Carmack.
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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by Karunamon on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:54PM (#24204222)
Not to mention his demonstrated history of putting his foot in his mouth. This is hardly the first time he was later proven wrong on something he originally promised.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4gfpjk/palmer_lucke...

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