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Palmer Luckey considers buying HTC's Vive division, just for LOLs

nalex66
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Reddit thread.

What do you guys think, would that be a laugh if Palmer owned Vive?

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Zenbane
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He did this a few weeks ago with AltSpace. When they announced they were having to close up shop, he went to Twitter to ask the same question:

https://twitter.com/palmerluckey/status/891301924732928000

He's basically turning these failing companies in to a "What's grosser than gross?" -style gameshow 😄

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Yeah, he also tweeted the announcement that AltSpaceVR was continuing a little later. I don't know if he ended up investing or not, but it seemed like he might have and they kept it quiet.

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Yep, and I remember the announcement from AltSpace directly... they didn't say who nor how it all happened. And they were asked aplenty!

Anyone who gets help from Palmer has to do that "walk of shame" after...



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Isn't Palmer worth about $2m, and it cost Zuck $2b to buy Oculus? So Palmer would be a few $$ short!  😄

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Isn't Palmer worth about $2m, and it cost Zuck $2b to buy Oculus? So Palmer would be a few $$ short!  😄


"Luckeyly" you're not Palmer's financial advisor.
He's worth more like $740m.
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nalex66 said:

Reddit thread.

What do you guys think, would that be a laugh if Palmer owned Vive?


That would be a massive slap in the face to all Vivarians. But I think he has not enough money to buy HTC.
Excuse my bad english. I speak to you through the google translator. 😛

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Yes with this rebranding i can just see the company tag now


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nalex66 said:

Reddit thread.

What do you guys think, would that be a laugh if Palmer owned Vive?


That would be a massive slap in the face to all Vivarians. But I think he has not enough money to buy HTC.


He wouldn't be buying HTC though, they're considering selling off the Vive division separately. I have no idea what it would be worth, given that they don't own the technology, which is licensed from Valve.

But considering that Palmer turned a garage business into a $2B sale to Facebook, I'm sure there would be no shortage of investors lining up to make up the difference if he couldn't cough up the whole cost to buy Vive.

DK2, CV1, Go, Quest, Quest 2, Quest 3.


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Richooal said:



Isn't Palmer worth about $2m, and it cost Zuck $2b to buy Oculus? So Palmer would be a few $$ short!  😄


"Luckeyly" you're not Palmer's financial advisor.
He's worth more like $740m.


We have no idea how much he's worth now. He was worth around $740m after he sold Oculus to Facebook but we have no idea how much he's spent since or how many lucrative investments he's made.