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It's not goodbye, it's see you around... Thank you to all of you who have supported my #Oculus #VR news site (OVRnews.com) aka 'The Unofficial Blog of the Rift' along the way. 🥲🙏 Read more → ovrnews.com/its-not-goodby…

I have an opinion on the Meta layoffs that is contrary with most of the VR industry and much of the media, but strongly held. This is not a disaster. They still employ the largest team working on VR by about an order of magnitude. Nobody else is even close. The "Meta is abandoning VR" narrative is obviously false, 10% layoffs is basically six months of normal churn concentrated into 60 days, strictly numbers wise. The majority of the 1,500 jobs cut in Reality Labs (out of 15,000) were roles working on first-party content, internally developed games that competed directly with third party developers. I think this is a good decision, and I thought the same back when I was still at Oculus. Change always sucks because people lose their jobs in the process, but in a world of limited resources, Meta heavily subsidizing their own (with money, marketing, placement, etc) at the expense of core technical progress and platform stability doesn't make sense. Crowding out the rest of the entire ecosystem, even less so. Every developer big and small, even the hyper-efficient ones, have had an extremely hard time competing with games developed by Meta-owned teams with budgets and teams that spend vastly in excess of earning potential. People will point out that these teams did an awesome job and got awesome reviews from critics and customers alike - yes, and fucked up though it is, that makes the problem even worse! Some people will say "they should have just funded those developers as external studios rather than acquiring them, then!". Yes, I agree, but hindsight is 20/20. Do you think Oculus expected to only sell 700 copies of Rock Band VR after spending eight figures to make sure it was ready and awesome for Rift CV1 launch, to the point of bundling the guitar adapter with every single headset? Of course not, but sometimes you learn what the world actually wants from you the hard way. TL;DR, I feel really bad for the people impacted, but this is a good thing thing for the long-term health of the industry, especially the ongoing incentives. (Nobody at Meta knows I am making this post)

I've been waiting for @PalmerLuckey to go on @JoeRogan's podcast for a long time — glad it finally happened!...Watch the 3-hour podcast below: ⤵️ youtube.com/watch?v=-9LFj6…

@boztank We've come full circle...time to shake up the world (again)! 🥹👏👏

The computing platform of the future will be built on AI and AR and American industry is once again leading the world in bringing it to life. Proud to be working with Anduril to make sure our national security continues to benefit from our technological edge.

Finally, the metaverse is restored.... 🥹

How it started (2012) vs. How it's going (2025) #Oculus x #Anduril — Founder @PalmerLuckey *created w/ GPT-4o image generation

It's so great to see @PalmerLuckey and @Boztank finally share a moment like this on X—the Metaverse is healing. ❤️‍🩹🙏

Thanks, Boz. Apology accepted. I am infamously good at holding grudges, but Meta has changed a lot over the past 8 years. The people responsible for my ouster and internal/external smear campaign aren't even around anymore. At some point, the Ship of Theseus has sailed.

I'm glad you came by to check out Orion. I mentioned this in person, but I also wanted to publicly apologize for my previous comments about your time at (then) Oculus. I’m sorry. After reading the recent Tablet piece I dug into some of the events that preceded my time when a different set of people who are no longer at the company were running the group. It turns out I was misinformed but that's no excuse and since I wasn't involved I should never have said anything. I'm grateful for the impact you made at the company and in developing VR overall. Looking forward to showing you more of our work in the future.

@PalmerLuckey @boztank So glad to see this moment expressed and shared publicly after all these years... 🥲❤️🙏

@boztank Thank you, very rare for someone to demonstrate this sort of character. It was pretty surreal to be back on campus with you guys, Orion alone was well worth the trip. It is more or less exactly what I would have wanted to accomplish. x.com/PalmerLuckey/s…

Oculus Founder Reacts to Horizon OS News: "Hopefully it isn't too late" Read the report 👉 roadtovr.com/oculus-founder… @PalmerLuckey

10 years ago the world learned Mark Zuckerberg acquired Oculus VR for over $2 billion: uploadvr.com/zuckerberg-que…

@gingasvr Where's @benz145?😅 OG's will remember.

Better than Quest 3? 🤔 #vr #ces

@benz145 It's been 10 years already? Time sure does fly by... ⏰⏳🥹

Who comes out on top?

Read our recap of the biggest developer news and announcements from Meta Connect 2023, and where to watch (or rewatch) select sessions on-demand. Learn more here: ocul.us/3tlnmYm

Well, today marks the one-year anniversary since I decided to sunset my Oculus/Meta blog (OVRnews.com) site. Now, with #MetaConnect 2023 just around the corner, it's the first year I will simply sit back, relax, and enjoy the tidal wave of information and sensory overload instead of racing to keep up with every bit of newsworthy material to pump out and post to the site. I always loved the challenge, but it sure can be exhausting at times. 😅 I'm looking forward to this year's Meta Connect news from some of my go-to #VR sources like—Ben Lang (@benz145), @KentBye, Ian Hamilton (@hmltn), David Heaney (@Heaney555), Brad Lych (@SadlyItsBradley), @CasandChary, and others. 👍 Special shoutout: @PalmerLuckey 👋

@seanish0v @PalmerLuckey @natemitchell Time flies... 🥲

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If @PalmerLuckey were still running Oculus, he says he would have "shipped a different set of hardware, focusing on a different set of people." Luckey believes that Meta's decision to leave the high-end/hardcore user base behind too early was a mistake. 🧵⤵️

During @lexfridman's podcast with Mark Zuckerberg, Lex shared his experience trying out the #Quest3 as simply "Amazing." 🤯 Here, Mark goes into discussing the capabilities of the Quest 3, which is due out later this fall, and the future of #mixedreality. youtube.com/watch?v=ThJ0kH…