Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect? Palmer Luckey More Quotes by Palmer Luckey More Quotes From Palmer Luckey I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future. Palmer Luckey doingfutureguycrazy I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community. Palmer Luckey projectdoingcommunitywork Ever since I was 15, I've tried to act and talk as if I was a public figure because I was sure that I would be one day and wanted to be prepared. Palmer Luckey acttalkdayone-day If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler. Palmer Luckey parentsgoodrichlife There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play. Palmer Luckey gamingqualitytimeway I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design. Palmer Luckey virtual-realitydesignrealityyears I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet. Palmer Luckey gamecommunitytimelong I'm a huge fan of online communities. I think that asynchronous internet-based communication forums such as Reddit and other discussion forums are one of the best things that could possibly have happened to collaborative invention. The Rift certainly would not exist without forums. Palmer Luckey bestthingsthinkcommunication A lot of people, even if they know what VR is, see it as this tool to go in your basement and play Halo. Palmer Luckey yourgoknowpeople Games take years to make, and it's important that when we launch, it can't just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they'd rather not be competing at launch with all this other software. Palmer Luckey greatdeserttimelong Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful. Palmer Luckey gamegoodtoughreality I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom. Palmer Luckey thinkfreedomtechnologypeople I think probably the majority of political actions don't go the way people are going to go. Just because there were unexpected consequences and maybe not the resolution people would have liked to have been seen doesn't mean it was less valid of an action. Palmer Luckey thinkunexpectedpeopleway
