Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR who sold the company to Facebook for a cool $2 billion, has been rather absent from the spotlight since September this year, when he issued a public apology following the news that he'd provided $100,000 to a social media meme company with a pro-Trump agenda. However Oculus assures us that he hasn't been murdered or locked in a basement somewhere, with a VR jail around him.
In-fact he has a new position at the company, though in what capacity just yet, we don't know.
It seems unlikely that he'll be taking over the role of CEO of the company, as one of the big changes early on in the firm's development was to bring in industry veteran Brendan Iribe to act as CEO - though of course he recently stepped down from the position.
It could be that Luckey will be used as a public evangelist for VR, as he still maintains some good will with the world at large, even if not with the more concentrated VR audience, which he seems to feel turned on him somewhat. However many complaints against him do have some merit. He previously stated that the Rift would be far cheaper than it ended up being, as well as promising no-exclusives, which also did come about in the end.
While we'll have to wait and see to find out what Luckey will be doing in the future, it seems unlikely to be in any form of leadership role.
