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27 September, 2016

His misguided political donation could have serious impacts on Oculus and Facebook. On Thursday, it was revealed that Palmer Luckey, the creator of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, had funded the efforts of Nimble America, a pro-Donald Trump nonprofit. Yesterday, Luckey confirmed that he had made a $10,000 donation to the group, while seeming to walk back any support for Trump himself, saying he would be voting for Libertarian Gary Johnson. Luckey also denied that he was responsible for some Reddit posts attributed to him by the Daily Beast. Meanwhile, several Oculus Rift game developers have said they will distance themselves from the platform because of Luckey’s political involvement

http://fortune.com/2016/09/24/palmer-lucky-backlash-oculus/