The Zuck and Luckey Reunion Enshrines Big Tech’s Dude Bro-ification

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey, the original founder of Oculus VR who has since become a military contractor, weren’t on the best of terms for many years. After all, Zuck is the one who fired Luckey after he helped establish Meta’s entire VR business. That’s now water under the bridge. There’s major money to be made in military tech, but Zuckerberg and Luckey—two nerds who made billions off their consumer products—are also bound tight by their newfound ultra-masculine, Trump-supporting personas. On Thursday, the pair declared they were hitching themselves back together after their initial nasty divorce and subsequent lawsuit nearly a decade ago. Luckey’s military contracting company, Anduril, and Meta announced they were going to make “the world’s best” AR and VR technology for the U.S. military. This initial project is dubbed “EagleEye” and, according to The Wall Street Journal, will be some kind of “rugged” VR system that could detect enemy soldiers or drones. The Oculus ... Read full article.