The Oculus buyout was pretty clearly Thiel using Facebook as a piggy bank to elevate one of his neofascist protégés into demi-billionaire status. Given the amount of money rolling through Meta’s VR efforts to no obvious return, I wouldn’t be surprised to find that this is an ongoing funding source.
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The whole thing is *chef's kiss*. Compare and contrast the larded-up puffery of the Oculus Rift primary page with the rather obviously lawyerly text of the ZeniMax v. Oculus page.
Would need triple spacing for what's written between the lines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeniMax_v._Oculus
Although financially it worked out for John, so, maybe he gets it and we don’t.
What’s special about Luckey? Same Valley fairy dust that made Theranos a thing. Luckey, bless his pointy little head, fits the hype parameters.
https://www.wired.com/story/sega-vr-headset-video-game-preservation/#:~:text=In%201993%2C%20the%20console%20maker's,emulation%20to%20bring%20them%20back.&text=In%201993%2C%20Sega%20made%20a,bring%20VR%20to%20the%20masses.
Garage? Check!
Duct tape? Check!
Hacker kid? Check!
College dropout? Check! (Ideally the Farm, but whatev)
It’s a formula. Also a failure.
Pro tip: “garage” is a red flag
My unremarkable jaundiced view: a big SV elite cadre make molto bacon deftly exploiting SV’s post-80s mythology, often with…how you say...*limited* technical chops