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Founder of Oculus VR, Palmer Luckey, Departs Facebook

posted by Fnord666 on Friday March 31 2017, @09:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the lucky? dept.

takyon writes:

Palmer Luckey has left Facebook:

Palmer Luckey, a founder of the virtual-reality technology company Oculus, has left Facebook three years after the social network acquired his company for close to $3 billion. Mr. Luckey's departure was announced two months after a trial in federal court over allegations that he and several colleagues had stolen trade secrets from a video-game publisher, ZeniMax Media, to create the Oculus technology. A jury found Facebook liable for $500 million in damages, in part for Mr. Luckey's violation of a confidentiality agreement.

"Palmer will be dearly missed," Tera Randall, an Oculus spokeswoman, said in a statement. "His inventive spirit helped kick-start the modern VR revolution and helped build an industry." Ms. Randall declined to disclose the terms of Mr. Luckey's departure. [...] In January, Facebook appointed a new leader, Hugo Barra, to head up the company's virtual-reality efforts, including Oculus.

Will the first Palmer Luckey documentary be compatible with the next Oculus headset?

Also at TechCrunch, CNBC, and UploadVR.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @09:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @09:58AM (#487007)

    Will Carmack be next?

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by kaszz on Friday March 31 2017, @10:42AM (2 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Friday March 31 2017, @10:42AM (#487025) Journal

    ZeniMax Media seems like a rent seeker. Claiming in court [gamasutra.com] that "non-literal copying refers to a type of infringement where a program's primary functions are reproduced using different code." and that this constitute copyright infringement.

    Unclear however why he quit Facebook.

    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Taibhsear on Friday March 31 2017, @02:29PM (1 child)

      by Taibhsear (1464) on Friday March 31 2017, @02:29PM (#487089)

      a type of infringement where a program's primary functions are reproduced using different code.

      Doesn't that describe like every reverse engineered product EVER?

      • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday April 01 2017, @02:12PM

        by kaszz (4211) on Saturday April 01 2017, @02:12PM (#487616) Journal

        You're right. Makes one really go hmm.. about what courts accept.

  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Friday March 31 2017, @01:56PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Friday March 31 2017, @01:56PM (#487075) Journal

    At first, I thought the headline meant that he overcame the strong addiction many feel to Facebook, and deleted his account.

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