Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now valued at $1B
It&#x27;s hearing things like this that make me regret having supported Luckey on his Kickstarter. I had followed him for a few years on the MTBS3D forum when he was experimenting with various HMD prototypes (usually modding the heck out of the Forte VFX-1). He just seemed like a kid with a dream, and the will and ability to make it happen - and potentially revive VR for &quot;Round 2&quot;.<p>I suppose he did do that, and while I didn&#x27;t like the &quot;sell-out&quot; to FB and Zuck - I couldn&#x27;t blame him, either. Then it seemed like things went downhill from there.<p>I don&#x27;t have any problem with someone being a republican or a conservative, but I can&#x27;t and couldn&#x27;t understand why someone would support a person like our current POTUS. To me, it would be similar to continue to voice support for Manson while saying &quot;well, it isn&#x27;t like he killed anybody himself, so it&#x27;s ok&quot; - umm, no - it&#x27;s not ok.<p>...and now this.<p>I sometimes wonder if we humans will ever get over this artificial border fetish we have. I don&#x27;t have problems with property rights, to a certain level, but I&#x27;m not sure it has really worked well at the large scale level. All it has seemed to do is create some level of tension at best, and outright violence at worst. I am not certain that we as a species can continue on this path for much longer, not without some very terrible things occuring.<p>So - while I would prefer a &quot;monitored solution&quot; to border control over physical imposing measures, my real preference would be for us to all work toward eliminating these national-level borders completely. Instead, it seems like we&#x27;re going the opposite direction, even online, and erecting virtual barriers to separate us from each other, instead of working to understand each other and work together on solving our world problems.