# Palmer Luckey on Reddit (u/palmerluckey)

Part of Founders and CEOs on Reddit, researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-07. Interactive version: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/palmer-luckey

Palmer Luckey: Founder of Oculus and Anduril.

- Reddit account: [u/palmerluckey](https://www.reddit.com/user/palmerluckey/) (Personal account)
- How we know it's theirs: [His 2016 r/IAmA AMA, posted from this account](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3zt7ul/)
- Where they post, in the records we retrieved: r/IAmA (14), r/oculus (8), r/pcmasterrace (3), r/technology (1)
- Known activity in the posts we found: 2016 to 2022
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Luckey

## Moments

### u/palmerluckey in r/IAmA, Jan 7, 2016 · Owned it

Replying to a redditor:

> What is the ballpark price of the touch controllers?

> 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.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3zt7ul/i_am_palmer_luckey_founder_of_oculus_and_designer/cyowadt/ · 779 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/palmerluckey in r/pcmasterrace, Jan 11, 2016 · The why

Replying to a redditor:

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

> 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 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.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/40ea0x/i_am_palmer_luckey_founder_of_oculus_and_designer/cytl8lz/ · 619 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/palmerluckey in r/oculus, Mar 31, 2016 · Owned it

Replying to a redditor:

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

> 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.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4crwxt/mr_palmer_i_know_youre_reading_these_threads_come/d1l2dm3/ · 757 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/palmerluckey in r/oculus, Mar 21, 2016 · Owned it

Replying to the post "Oculus Software and VR applications must be stored in C:\ drive".

> 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.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4bd31n/oculus_software_and_vr_applications_must_be/d18dw80/ · 564 points as of Nov 7, 2026