The founder of Oculus and Meta have reconciled
The tech wunderkind Palmer Luckey and Meta just opened a new chapter in their relationship.
Palmer Luckey founded Oculus in the summer of 2012 and kicked off the VR wave. Almost two years later, Facebook acquired the startup for $3 billion. But in 2017, Luckey was ousted from the company for political reasons.
After his dismissal, Luckey founded Anduril Industries and has been revolutionizing the US defense industry ever since. He bore a grudge against Facebook, and later Meta, for many years.
Luckey: "Meta has changed a lot"
It appears that seven and a half years after his ouster, there has been a reconciliation.
Luckey was invited to Meta's headquarters to try out Meta's prototype Orion AR glasses. A picture Luckey posted on X documents the event.
Meta's CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth was present and had personally apologized to Luckey for earlier comments about him. He wrote on X: "I'm grateful for the impact you made at the company and in developing VR overall. Looking forward to showing you more of our work in the future."
I'm glad you came by to check out Orion. I mentioned this in person, but I also wanted to publicly apologize for my previous comments about your time at (then) Oculus. I'm sorry. After reading the recent Tablet piece I dug into some of the events that preceded my time when a. .. https://t.co/s894YrAUz5
- Boz (@boztank) October 2, 2024
Luckey replied: "Thanks, Boz. Apology accepted. I am infamously good at holding grudges, but Meta has changed a lot over the past 8 years. The people responsible for my ouster and internal/external smear campaign aren't even around anymore."
Of his visit to Meta and Orion, Luckey writes: "It was pretty surreal to be back on campus with you guys, Orion alone was well worth the trip. It is more or less exactly what I would have wanted to accomplish."
Thanks, Boz. Apology accepted.
I am infamously good at holding grudges, but Meta has changed a lot over the past 8 years. The people responsible for my ouster and internal/external smear campaign aren't even around anymore. At some point, the Ship of Theseus has sailed. https://t.co/SvHbU5qwcn
- Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) October 3, 2024
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