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Re:Y Combinator backed MMO metaverse game is a blatant scam by Aeolun on Saturday May 29, 2021 @03:51AM (#27323721)
Didn’t Oculus sound just as crazy when it was conceived? As far as I know the founder had barely any experience with hardware. Just a glorified gamer.
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Re:Y Combinator backed MMO metaverse game is a blatant scam by husainhz7 on Saturday May 29, 2021 @08:05AM (#27324713)
His wikipedia[1] page states that he was a VR enthusiast for quite a while, building several prototypes before launching the kickstarter [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Luckey
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Re:Y Combinator backed MMO metaverse game is a blatant scam by rasz on Saturday May 29, 2021 @10:36PM (#27330154)
First Oculus was pretty much linear continuation of where VR died in the nineties with VFX1 and Virtuality. Merely a hardware upgrade of LCD and IMU technology.
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