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I appreciate what he's done for VR and retro gaming.

Some interesting stuff from his wiki page, presented without comment:

Luckey's sister, Ginger Luckey, is married to former U.S. representative Matt Gaetz.

In a 2024 interview, Luckey described himself as a "radical Zionist.

Luckey created a VR headset art piece that kills its human user in real life when the user dies digitally in the video game, by means of several explosive charges affixed above the screen, on what appears to be a modified Meta Quest Pro, to aim the blast at the user's forebrain.

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waigl@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I appreciate what he’s done for VR and retro gaming.

He took money from a lot of donors, used that money to get patents for his company, then sold that company, including the patents, to Facebook (now Meta).

I do not appreciate what he did there.

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- missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  As an early PCVR adopter I’ll never forget how he created hardware exclusivity in an already tiny new market, immediately stunting it and causing fragmentation.
  
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- taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yeah I was gonna say, also didn’t he just rip off what Valve was sharing for free from their VR lab experimentation like 15 years ago?
  
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Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I appreciate what he’s done for VR and retro gaming

I don’t.

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- semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yea isn’t this the guy that ran off with Valve’s patents and then sold them to Facebook?
  
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- 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I’m always suspicious of someone who starts off by trying to soften up the criticism and divert the topic off to something else entirely.
  
  Seems like PR team responding rather than an actual individual. But being as how people worship people these days, it’s a 50/50 between a shitty person and PR team.
  
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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
He should test it

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- gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  He tested it already, extensively in fact. That’s how they know it works :)
  
  (No animals were harmed only people)
  
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  - tyler@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    He should test it, not he should get it tested.
    
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- CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  In Subnautica VR
  
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brax@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
What good did he do for either VR or retro gaming, exactly?

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