Consumer VR is Here

[A Black Falcon]

At least buying the Rift AFTER the guy was bought out makes it a bit better.

Please remember though that for every major traded company, there's no telling how many racist rich people own major shares and benefit every time you buy a product from that company. It's basically impossible these days to make sure your money ISN'T, at some point in the chain, going to fund some cause you despise.

I'm sure this is true, yes, but Luckey has been a very prominent figure thanks to his pushing VR. This isn't just some random person, but Oculus's most prominent figure, the person who founded the company before he sold to Facebook and its top PR figure, or at least he was before this. Luckey was even on the cover of Time Magazine earlier this year, wearing a Rift headset! He hasn't been fired and Facebook seems to have little interest in actually facing the issue, so they might try to keep him in his very public role, but that will be difficult to impossible now I'd think. Some things will be impossible now, like trying to convince people he cares about diversity in the VR world when we know the truth (he spoke at some conference for minorities in VR development, or something like that, before this, for example)... but Facebook seems to want to shove this under a rug, so will they just ignore all the negative press and continue on anyway? I hope that if that happens the press doesn't let up on them until they crack and admit they have a problem. Yes, people are entitled to their own personal views, but this is worse than that, he revealed himself as someone supporting a group loaded with racist, sexist, and antisemitic thought and imagery. That's way worse than the kind of "people are entitled to their political views" spin Facebook is trying to pretend this is.

Oh, and Facebook also apparently is locking all threads critical of Palmer on Oculus's forums. However, an a thread with a link to a typically awful Breitbart article? That's fine, that stays open. That is not okay.

The big difference in this case is someone managed to find out about it. It's also worth pointing out that no one stopped buying iPhones when they found out the conditions under which they are manufactured (and the singular fact is that company is responsible for components for MANY more companies than Apple).

That's true, unfortunately sometimes people just don't care enough to keep pushing a company when it refuses to take any action towards good causes like reducing stuff gotten from questionable or clearly bad sources, against sexism, or what have you. Nintendo seems to know this well too, as this also helps them get away with stuff. Too bad.