Luckey was just 18 when he built the first prototype for a virtual reality headset that would go on to raise almost $2.5m on Kickstarter and $75m from venture capital firms. A video game enthusiast who made money repairing iPhones, he dropped out of college and began tinkering with virtual reality headsets while working in a trailer parked in the driveway of his parents’ house. Luckey has spoken about the potential value of virtual reality for education, and VR boosters tend to hype its potential to increase human empathy by expanding our ability to experience other people’s lives. Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey spends fortune backing pro-Trump 'shitposts' Read moreStill, at heart, Luckey doesn’t appear as invested in the transformative possibilities of his technology as we might hope. But Palmer has decided to use his capital to support a fucking meme factory that delves online discussion into racist, angry, anti-intellectual bullshit.”

Source: The Guardian September 23, 2016 19:49 UTC