{"id":12311,"date":"2016-09-24T11:06:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T11:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=12311"},"modified":"2016-09-24T11:07:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T11:07:46","slug":"oculus-founder-admits-he-gave-10000-to-nimble-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/oculus-founder-admits-he-gave-10000-to-nimble-america.html","title":{"rendered":"Oculus founder admits he gave $10,000 to Nimble America"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Oculus founder admits he gave $10,000 to Nimble America<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Oculus founder admits he gave $10,000 to Nimble America<\/strong> : SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Oculus founder Palmer Luckey acknowledged giving $10,000 to Nimble America but denied he was the founder of the pro-Donald Trump group which created anti-Hillary Clinton Internet memes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Luckey, who sold his virtual reality company to Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion, said he donated the money &#8220;because I thought the organization had fresh ideas on how to communicate with young voters through the use of several billboards.&#8221; Nimble America put up a billboard near Pittsburgh featuring a distorted image of Clinton with the caption: &#8220;too big to jail.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Luckey&#8217;s involvement in Nimble America, reported Thursday by The Daily Beast, roiled the community of virtual reality software developers, some of whom threatened to stop making games for Oculus, a unit of Facebook. Oculus plans to hold its annual conference for developers Oculus Connect on Oct. 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">In a Facebook post late Friday, Luckey said he was &#8220;deeply sorry&#8221; his actions &#8220;are negatively impacting the perception of Oculus and its partners.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Luckey said his actions did not represent the views of Oculus and denied a report that he wrote posts associated with the group or that he supports Trump. He said he is a libertarian who plans to vote for Gary Johnson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t have any plans to donate beyond what I have already given to Nimble America,&#8221; Luckey wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">In May, Facebook board member Peter Thiel said he spent $10 million to back a lawsuit against Gawker Media that resulted in its bankruptcy.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Thiel, a Trump delegate, spoke at the Republican National Convention in July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Source<\/strong> : http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/news\/2016\/09\/24\/oculus-founder-admits-he-gave-10000-nimble-america\/91013392\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/oculus-founder-admits-he-gave-10000-to-nimble-america.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oculus founder admits he gave $10,000 to Nimble America Oculus founder admits he gave $10,000 to Nimble America : SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Oculus founder Palmer Luckey acknowledged giving $10,000 to Nimble America but denied he was the founder of the pro-Donald Trump group which created anti-Hillary Clinton Internet memes. 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