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Re:Palmer Luckey: “The Apple headset is so good.” by gumby on Sunday May 14, 2023 @08:12PM (#35942586)
The rift might have been intended as a mass market device but it certainly wasn’t one in practice: it demonstrably didn’t have the features and use case(s) necessary to reach mass market acceptance.

> designer of the Oculus Rift

Cough Valve and Abrash. You presumably do know the famous “Oculus” demo that got Zuckerberg’s investment was given at Valve using all of Valve’s headset and software, right? All that IP just handed to Oculus.

Say what you like about the guy but at least base it on facts.

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Re:Palmer Luckey: “The Apple headset is so good.” by tapoxi on Sunday May 14, 2023 @08:44PM (#35942745)
He was designing it on his own and did a good enough job to get Carmack interested and promoting it through forum interactions: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NYa8kirsUfg

I'm not sure what this Valve demo refers to.

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Re:Palmer Luckey: “The Apple headset is so good.” by gumby on Sunday May 14, 2023 @09:51PM (#35943069)
The Oculus was the Valve headset and software. Abrash took the patents and code with him when he left Oculus. This is not some secret.
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Re:Palmer Luckey: “The Apple headset is so good.” by tapoxi on Monday May 15, 2023 @12:03PM (#35950427)
I'd believe this if Luckey wasn't developing it publicly on MTBS forums.
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