Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Working on New Headset ‘Driven by Military Requirements’

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has introduced he’s engaged on a brand new head-mounted show (HMD) for each navy and non-military use.

During a fireside chat at the 2024 Augmented World Expo (AWE), Luckey was upfront that the headset could be “pushed” by navy necessities however have the flexibility to do non-military stuff.

“…I’m truly constructing a brand new headset proper now,” Luckey defined in the course of the panel. “It’s pushed by navy necessities, nevertheless it’s additionally going for use for non-military stuff. And it is actually cool, it is actually one thing.”

Luckey teased earlier this month that he was engaged on a brand new HMD and would formally announce the system at AWE. However, the extent to which the headset could be utilized in a non-military capability was not additional elaborated on.

Luckey is well-known within the digital actuality business for releasing the Oculus Rift digital actuality headset. Luckey based Oculus in 2012; roughly two years later the corporate was acquired by Meta (then often called Facebook) for $2 billion. In 2017, Luckey left Facebook. Neither celebration defined Luckey’s departure, nevertheless it got here amid controversial political donations in the course of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Following his departure from Facebook, Luckey co-founded Anduril Industries, a navy protection expertise firm. Luckey not too long ago dipped his toes again into the patron {hardware} house, as earlier this month he revealed the ModRetro Chromatic, a $199 handheld formed like a GameBoy that includes a backlit show and the power to play Game Boy, and Game Boy colour cartridges. Like its competitor, the Analogue Pocket, the ModRetro Chromatic helps FPGA-based emulation.

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