Palmer Luckey Says Working With Weapons Isn't as Fun as VR

Who needs the metaverse when your life can be as weird as Palmer Luckey's? In 2016, the founder of the virtual reality startup Oculus was unceremoniously pushed out of the company that acquired it--Facebook. Zuckerberg and his minions had soured on Luckey's Trump-embracing politics. At the time, few would have guessed that the fanciful technologist, gamer, and cosplayer who once posed on a virtual beach on the cover of Time Magazine would become a major figure in defense technology. But Luckey quickly cofounded Anduril, a Founders Fund-backed startup devoted to cutting-edge military tech. Lucky is now winning billion-dollar Pentagon contracts.