Palmer Luckey
American entrepreneur
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| May 2025 | In a 60 Minutes interview, Luckey addressed his departure from Facebook, stating that it was related to his $9,000 donation to a political group supporting Trump and opposing Clinton. |
| 2024 | Spoke at Pepperdine University, openly admitting to being a propagandist willing to manipulate truth to influence people's beliefs. |
| 2024 | In an interview, identified himself as a 'radical Zionist'. |
| 2024 | In a 2024 interview, Palmer Luckey described himself as a 'radical Zionist.' |
| June 2024 | In June 2024, ModRetro, a company founded by Palmer Luckey, released its first product, the ModRetro Chromatic, a handheld retrogaming device designed to play original Game Boy games. |
| June 8 2024 | Luckey co-hosted a high-stakes fundraiser for Donald Trump at the home of John Word, a health insurance company co-founder, where donors paid up to $100,000 per person to attend. |
| 2022 | In December, Anduril raised approximately $1.5 billion, led by Valor Equity Partners, increasing the company's valuation to $8.5 billion. |
| November 2022 | In November 2022, Palmer Luckey announced the creation of a VR headset art piece that kills its user in real life when the user dies digitally in the video game, commemorating the anime Sword Art Online. The device is based on a modified Meta Quest Pro and uses explosive charges to aim at the user's forebrain. |
| May 4 2022 | Anduril announced negotiations with the Australian military for a $100 million, co-funded program to design, develop, and manufacture extra large autonomous undersea vehicles for the Royal Australian Navy. |
| February 2022 | Anduril, led by Luckey, won a $1 billion contract to manage counter-unmanned systems work for the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM). |
| October 2020 | Palmer Luckey hosted a fundraiser for Donald Trump at his home in Lido Isle, Newport Beach, which featured ticket prices ranging from $2,800 per person to $150,000 per couple. The event attracted both supporters and protesters of Trump outside. |
| September 2020 | Luckey announced via Twitter that Anduril had received a $967 million contract for the Advanced Battle Management Systems project, a major initiative by the U.S. Air Force. |
| 2019 | Palmer Luckey married his long-time girlfriend and professional gamer Nicole Edelmann. |
| 2018 | After his departure from Facebook, Palmer Luckey hired an employment lawyer to negotiate a payout of at least $100 million, claiming the company violated California law. |
| November 2018 | The Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook executives pressured Palmer Luckey to publicly support libertarian candidate Gary Johnson following his support for Donald Trump. |
| June 2018 | The judge overseeing the ZeniMax case dismissed all damages owed by Palmer Luckey and reduced the amount owed by other parties to $250 million. |
| April 2018 | During a Senate testimony, Senator Ted Cruz questioned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about Palmer Luckey's termination, which Zuckerberg declined to comment on, except to say it wasn’t due to Luckey's political view. |
| March 2018 | Anduril Industries, under Luckey's leadership, began a pilot program for the US government aimed at detecting human trafficking and drug smuggling, successfully catching 55 attempted entrants in the first 12 days. |
| 2017 | The character Keenan Feldspar, played by Haley Joel Osment in HBO's Silicon Valley, was speculated to be based on Palmer Luckey, sharing similarities such as being a young entrepreneur in the VR field. |
| 2017 | Palmer Luckey donated to the 2017 Presidential Inaugural Committee. |
| June 2017 | Palmer Luckey founded Anduril Industries, an autonomy-focused defense technology company, alongside former Palantir Technologies executives and early Oculus VR Hardware Lead Joseph Chen. |
| March 2017 | Palmer Luckey left Facebook and ceased his involvement with Oculus VR with no explanation provided. |
| February 2 2017 | A jury trial concluded with a finding that Palmer Luckey violated a non-disclosure agreement with ZeniMax but awarded zero damages. Luckey was held responsible for $50 million in a total of $500 million awarded for copyright infringement related to the Oculus Rift. |
| 2016 | Palmer Luckey was awarded the Royal Photographic Society Progress medal and Honorary Fellowship for his significant contributions leading to important advancements in photography and imaging. |
| 2016 | Since 2016, Palmer Luckey has become a prominent fundraiser for the Republican Party and Donald Trump. |
| 2016 | Palmer Luckey ranked number 22 on Forbes' 2016 List of America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40. |
| September 2016 | Palmer Luckey donated $10,000 to Nimble America, a pro-Donald Trump group, leading some developers to temporarily cancel support for Oculus. |
| September 2016 | In September 2016, Palmer Luckey stated that he is a libertarian and had previously supported Ron Paul and Gary Johnson in past elections. |
| 2015 | Luckey was featured on the cover of Time magazine in the article 'The Surprising Joy of Virtual Reality,' which sparked ridicule online regarding the perception of the VR field. |
| 2015 | A Forbes article reported that Luckey lived in a shared house with others, where they engaged in multiplayer video gaming while typically dressed in casual attire. |
| 2015 | Forbes estimated Palmer Luckey's net worth to be $700 million. |
| 2014 | Palmer Luckey was described as 'the face of virtual reality in gaming' and became a notable figure among virtual reality enthusiasts. |
| 2014 | Palmer Luckey received the Smithsonian magazine's American Ingenuity Award in the Youth category. |
| March 2014 | Oculus VR was acquired by Facebook for US$2 billion. |
| 2012 | Luckey's Kickstarter campaign for the Oculus Rift was successful, raising $2.4 million, which was 974% of its original target. |
| 2012 | During the Kickstarter campaign, Luckey demonstrated the Oculus Rift at several gaming conventions, including PAX, Gamescom, and QuakeCon 2012. |
| August 2012 | After raising over $1 million during the Kickstarter campaign, Palmer Luckey hired Brendan Iribe to be the CEO of Oculus. |
| June 2012 | Luckey provided a prototype headset to John Carmack from id Software, who demonstrated it using Doom 3: BFG Edition at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2012. |
| April 2012 | Palmer Luckey launched Oculus VR, which facilitated the official launch of the Kickstarter campaign for the Oculus Rift. |
| 2010 | Luckey completed his first prototype, PR1, at age 17 in his parents' garage; it featured a 90-degree field of view, low latency, and built-in haptic feedback. |
| 2010 | Luckey began attending California State University, Long Beach, where he wrote and served as Online Editor for the university's student-run newspaper, the Daily 49er. |
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