Palmer Luckey

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Palmer Freeman Luckey (born September 19, 1992 in Long Beach , California ) is an American entrepreneur and founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift , a virtual reality headset .

Life

Because of his dissatisfaction with the situation of virtual reality devices at the time, Luckey went to the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California in mid-2011 to develop a prototype there. At the same time, he began to experiment in his garage.

In his attempt to improve virtual reality, he has created the world's largest collection of head-mounted displays .

Ahead of the presidential election in the United States in 2016 , he funded a as a 501 (c) 4 social welfare organization registered organization to anti- Hillary Clinton - Internet phenomena create and street ads.

In March 2017, Palmer Luckey left Oculus VR for reasons unknown.

In June 2017, Palmer Luckey founded the defense company Anduril with three former Palantir employees. The company is working on surveillance systems for border controls and is testing the system at the Texas border. In the first 12 days, 55 attempted border crossings were prevented.

capital

According to Forbes magazine, Palmer Luckey's net worth is approximately $ 700 million (as of 2015).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jens Lubbadeh: Departure to the holodeck. In: Heise online . Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, March 26, 2014, accessed on March 27, 2014 (English).
  2. ↑ Ben Gilbert: Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey is financing a pro-Trump meme group. In: Yahoo Finance. September 23, 2016, accessed October 2, 2019 .
  3. ^ Rich McCormick: Palmer Luckey is funding Donald Trump's internet trolls with his Oculus money. In: The Verge . September 23, 2016, accessed October 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Gideon Resnick: Palmer Luckey: The Facebook Near Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine. In: The Daily Beast . September 22, 2016, accessed on September 23, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Joe Durbin: Oculus Co-Founder and Rift Creator Palmer Luckey Departs Facebook. In: UploadVR. March 30, 2017, accessed April 12, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Taylor Hatmaker: Palmer Luckey's defense company Anduril is already leading to arrests at the southern border. In: Techcrunch . July 11, 2018, accessed October 27, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Palmer Luckey. In: Forbes. Retrieved December 29, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Luckey, Palmer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luckey, Palmer Freeman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American inventor
DATE OF BIRTH 19th September 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Beach , California