The darling of the times can't do this ...
The annual conference Oculus Connect 3, sponsored by Oculus, was held in Sanhose, California the other day.At the three -day conference, the participants enjoyed various sessions, parties, and VR demonstrations.Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR in a keynote speech and shows off Facebook's social VR app.
All of them were as expected, but this year only one was different.The 24 -year -old Oculus founder, Palmer Lucky, was not anywhere.
The lack of him, who was told that he would play the future of the game at one time, is probably because of his bad reputation recently.Last month, the Daily Beast revealed that Lucky was involved in the anti -Clinton, which has a slogan saying, "The power of the fucking komi is powerful, and the magic of the Myers is genuine."。Following his favorite Twitter, he is likely to be a Trump supporter.
It has also been reported that he has a long romantic relationship with a gamer gate passionate woman.
When these facts were reported, at least five game studios and many indie Oculus developers announced that they would stop developing with Oculus, which became a major problem for Facebook.
This young genius who created Oculus was once a central person to the Oculus conference, with Facebook acquired Oculus in 2014, with Oculus acquired Oculus.I also made a presentation.Lucky was also an enthusiastic evangelist in VR, and it was very important for Facebook to show him.
Last year, it was featured in the media Vanity Fair, which handles American politics and business, together with Zuckerberg.At that time, Zuckerberg could not wait to show the world where everyone in Palmer Lucky, Brendan Ilibe (Oculus CEO), Nate Mitchell (Vice President of Oculus Product) and Oculus are doing.This article is shared on Facebook along with the comment.
But a year later, it was incredibly difficult to get a comment on Lucky from Facebook.
In fact, during the session of Oculus Connect 3, a lunch party was held, called "Diversity Luncheon", which was not advertised and did not include media.This was invited only by a limited number of Oculus staff and developers with a variety of backgrounds, participating in the Oculus VR incubator program Launch Pad.
However, at the time of the lunch party, several developers were already going to pull out or pulled out of Oculus.
In fact, Kokoromi and Polytron, who developed the VR puzzle game "Superhypercube", "I would like to use Lucky and his platform in the delicate and dangerous political background as now.We can't support it. We have decided not to support SUPERHYPERCUBE to Oculus, based on the facts that have been found. "
Also, Scruta Games also announced that it would withdraw the game from the Oculus platform, and said, "It's not a matter of who is supporting. The company's face is funding discriminators in a financial manner.That's how he voted for whom, "said the studio on Twitter.
With the end of the lunch party, Gizmodo's WILLIAM TURTON approached the participants who came out of the room and asked how the lunch was.Except for the Oculus staff, most of them answered his questions, and everyone highly appreciated the lunch party, but it seems that some of the meeting did not touch Lucky at all.。One of the developers, Dina Karam, said, "The silence of Oculus is heavy."
A stranger with his business card pulled him as Turton was talking to the lunch party participants.The woman told him, "If you approach the event participants any more, you will expel you."He returned to lunch, without answering the question whether he was Oculus staff or Oculus PR department.It turned out later that he was a very Oculus staff who has been in Oculus's marketing strategy division for three years.
According to the content spoken by multiple participants, Oculus staff had persuaded the developers who are thinking about withdrawal due to Lucky.One of the developers replied, "At least a statement recognizes the current situation, or if possible, Lucky should be separated from Oculus if possible," but the staff said, "Neither of them is possible."And.
Turton also asked Oculus CTO John Carmac about Lucky, but his reply was similar.In the past, Mr. Carmac was criticized when asked about the gender gaps in the VR industry, saying, "I'm struggling to secure the person I want.When he asked him about the controversy surrounding Lucky, he went to the speech with a laugh.
Nevertheless, he approached him, and his spokeswoman stood with a suitcase and was shut out, saying, "I will not talk."When he tried to talk to Oculus's CEO Brendan Ilibe, he said, "I can't talk. I have to look for my mother. I'm sorry."
Nobody knows what kind of duty is, if Lucky is still an employee of Facebook / Oculus, or if he works.
When I talked to a former employee Joe Chen who worked at Oculus until January 2015, he said, "I think I'm a friend of Lucky, but I don't know the current situation."。"I know that he was an employee of Facebook. I can't say anything more. I don't want to write what I said. I know.I can't comment anymore just because I was hired. "
Later, Oculus's PR Chief Tera Randall received an email to Gizmodo in the United States, revealing that Lucky was still working at Oculus.According to her, "(Lucky) fears that his scandals will hinder, and have declined (to his conference)."Lucky I asked him for comments directly, but he did not respond.
Lucky left the public comment on September 22nd."I'm very sorry that my actions have made Oculus and their partner perceptions very negative," he posted on Facebook, and he disappeared from the front stage.increase.His LinkedIn profile is still indicated that he is still working in Oculus, but the active Twitter feed or Facebook has not been updated for more than a month.And before, I was interviewed everywhere about the future of VR, but Iribe appeared in an interview with The Verge the other day and did not mention him at all.
From the above, he seems to be waiting for the Facebook order to cool down.People's interests will eventually diminish in his recent activities and political tastes.
However, some developers have doubted long -term commitments for the Oculus platform.Kate OPPENHEIM, an executive producer of MSSNGPECES, which provides Oculus PR videos, says, "I always think that I want to do a job that helps me (Lucky)."increase.She is not the only one who thinks like this, and it may be potentially many.
Waiting for the storm to pass may be a solution in the short term, but there is no denying that it will be a long -term damage as the developer has been doubtful.If Facebook doesn't take action now, it may be too late.
Other problems on Facebook: ○ The back is back in "free online".Criticism and Danger to Facebook ○ Former Facebook News Culator, continuous tweet about black work environment at that time ○ Facebook is a "Napalm Bullet Girl" problem in the issue
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