Palmer Luckey Biography

Palmer Luckey is the founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift a HD VR head-mounted display that provides the user with different virtual realities. He ranks #26 on Forbes' 2015 list of America's richest entrepreneurs under 40. Palmer’s Kickstarter campaign was successful raising US$2.4 million or 974% of its original target and as a result Oculus VR targeted a larger scale of units and expanded with more employees and an office space but Luckey described his day-to-day process as not having changed all that much remaining a slow plod towards making this thing a reality. Oculus VR was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$2 billion and although his share is not public Forbes magazine estimated the founder's net worth to be $700 million in 2015. Today he continues to work at Oculus VR on core VR technology.

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