Brendan Iribe, head of Oculus VR at Facebook
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Oculus CEO and studio chief weigh in on Palmer Luckey’s apology

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe weighed in on Facebook about Oculus founder Palmer Luckey’s ill-considered contribution to an anti-Hillary Clinton internet campaign.

Luckey made a lot of money selling Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014. He used part of his money to make a $10,000 contribution to pay for a group of self-proclaimed “shitposters” who wanted to influence the upcoming U.S. presidential election with anti-Hillary Clinton memes. Luckey had to apologize after he was outed, and a bunch of Oculus developers said they would quit making apps for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset because of Luckey’s actions.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.