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Palmer Luckey

Founder of Oculus and Anduril

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His 2016 r/IAmA AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 6 posts and 20 comments from u/palmerluckey, dated 2016 to 2022, most often in r/IAmA, r/oculus and r/pcmasterrace.

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A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I am Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus and designer of the Rift. AMA!”

What is the ballpark price of the touch controllers?

u/palmerluckey replied

Repeating my other answer, but no more ballparks from me for now. I learned my lesson - I usually try to underpromise and overdeliver, and I need to hold myself to that better in the future.

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A redditor wrote in r/pcmasterrace

On “I am Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus and designer of the Rift virtual reality headset. AMA!”

I don't know if this is still going on, but what are the specs of your pc?

u/palmerluckey replied

I have lived on the bleeding edge of PC hardware for as long as I could scrape the money together, but for VR, I am sticking to hardware that sticks to our recommended specs: https://www.oculus.com/en-us/oculus-ready-pcs/ That way, I get the…

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That way, I get the same experience as most of my customers. I don’t want to become disconnected from the reality of how our hardware and software performs.

As far as traditional gaming, though… I am currently working on a new PC that people might find pretty interesting. I have experimented with liquid nitrogen cooling in the past, but it is a huge pain to work with in any kind of daily use, and can also be dangerous. My new project is a very small super-powerful PC with no heatsinks and no fans - it is cooled by liquid propane, boiled into gaseous propane in an expansion block. From there, I can either compress back into a tank under high pressure, or vent out of a burner nozzle for supercooling to subzero temps. If I had more time, I would vent the propane to a small turbine generator hooked up to the PSU, but I can’t justify that kind of work right now.

A redditor wrote in r/oculus

On “Mr. Palmer, I know you're reading these threads. Come on, man. We're your base. Talk to us”

I don't think he's allowed to unfortunately. He's got bosses now too.

u/palmerluckey replied

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Not really. Don't shunt blame to other people, this is my call. I am not going to wax poetic about this, since I have done so in the past, but bottom-line: I won't give in-depth updates on any situation without knowing it is solid, true, and finalized. Until I can do so, the best I can do is remind people that I will get them information as quickly as I can.

On the rare occasions when things still change, even when they change for reasons out of my control, I get crucified anyway. Sometimes that means updates have to wait until things get locked down, and sometimes that means waiting a little longer to give everyone good info.

A redditor posted in r/oculus

Oculus Software and VR applications must be stored in C:\ drive

u/palmerluckey replied

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This is near the very top of our roadmap, but other features took priority for launch. Getting this working is non-trivial for a lot of reasons, but we will be getting it out ASAP. In the meanwhile, we are going to post some workarounds - we are still in the process of rolling out our support pages, don't take anything as final yet.