Palmer Luckey

13 statements across 4 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jul 5, 2021 by Palmer Luckey · said 17 times in 7 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Everything said about Palmer Luckey, oldest first

Jul 5, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Anduril's Lattice platform fuses thousands of sensors into real-time 3D models.
“I mean, we haven't talked about it much yet, but I mean, what we build with Lattice, it's an AI sensor fusion platform that can take data from thousands of sensors and merge it into a real-time, three D model of everything, and then tag everything in the model…”
Palmer Luckey Jul 5, 2021 ▶ 21:49 Palmer Luckey: Meet the Real-Life Tony Stark · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 5, 2021 negative
Opinion
Palmer Luckey calls Department of Defense innovation projects pure PR theater.
“There's all these people at DOD who have this job, basically their job is to generate things that look real enough to make a press release, or to do a panel, or to release a video, or to talk to Congress, and none of it is actually real, or useful, or deployab…”
Palmer Luckey Jul 5, 2021 ▶ 30:40 Palmer Luckey: Meet the Real-Life Tony Stark · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 5, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Luckey: Early VR competitors like Oculus and Sony shared research and hardware
“Very quickly, the nascent VR players, whether they were big like Sony or small like Oculus, We kind of decided it was going to be in our best interest to collaborate, and we actually did. Like, we shared a ton of research. We shared our interest, our research …”
Palmer Luckey Jul 5, 2021 ▶ 12:21 Palmer Luckey: Meet the Real-Life Tony Stark · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 5, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Luckey: All components for original Oculus Rift existed 3 years prior
“And what's weird about the Rift is it could have been built about three years, like literally every component that I used in the original Oculus Rift prototype which I call PR six. It was the sixth major revision of my designs. Every single part in it Existed …”
Palmer Luckey Jul 5, 2021 ▶ 1:41 Palmer Luckey: Meet the Real-Life Tony Stark · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 5, 2021 positive
Insight
Palmer Luckey argues refusing to build precision weapons is morally reprehensible.
“If you can make something that allows for more precision strike, less collateral damage, I think it'd be morally reprehensible to refuse to do it, to try and keep your own hands.”
Palmer Luckey Jul 5, 2021 ▶ 38:00 Palmer Luckey: Meet the Real-Life Tony Stark · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 5, 2021
Disclosure
Luckey: I built an assisted ramjet supersonic quadcopter project at Facebook
“This was actually what I was working on when I was at Facebook, I had a side project. Me and a few guys were in Atherton, and we got kicked out of Atherton because we were making so much noise. But we were building a project called ASRAM, the assisted ramjet, …”
Palmer Luckey Jul 5, 2021 ▶ 6:14 Palmer Luckey: Meet the Real-Life Tony Stark · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 5, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Luckey: High-training neural interfaces will launch in military before consumer tech
“I think the most powerful uses of these types of Human and computer interfaces are going to be ones that do require many hours of training. You know, imagine if I could, let's say, wear a band that is detecting a lot of the, Electrical activity in my median ne…”
Palmer Luckey Jul 5, 2021 ▶ 19:18 Palmer Luckey: Meet the Real-Life Tony Stark · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 5, 2021
Disclosure
Luckey: I maintain a list of forgotten technologies ripe for comeback
“I mean, I have a whole list on my computer of things that are this, basically forgotten technology. Things that didn't work in the past, and that are right for a comeback.”
Palmer Luckey Jul 5, 2021 ▶ 4:49 Palmer Luckey: Meet the Real-Life Tony Stark · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 5, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Palmer Luckey: Virtual reality will be humanity's final dominant media platform
“The final media platform, not just the next one, but the final one. I wasn't sure if it'd be the next one or if it was ready, but I knew that in the end, virtual reality was going to be the dominant media platform.”
Palmer Luckey Jul 5, 2021 ▶ 1:03 Palmer Luckey: Meet the Real-Life Tony Stark · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 5, 2021 positive
Insight
Luckey: Oculus Rift Succeeded by Offloading Optical Correction to GPU Shaders
“What the Rift did was say, wait a sec, we can correct for lots of lens aberrations in software in real time. Geometric distortion, we can do that in a shader on a graphics card. Chromatic aberration, we can correct for that in a shader on a graphics card. [213…”
Palmer Luckey Jul 5, 2021 ▶ 3:18 Palmer Luckey: Meet the Real-Life Tony Stark · Joe Lonsdale
Mar 21, 2024 positive
Opinion
Lonsdale: Losing five to ten key tech leaders would cause national decline
“I think if you take away maybe five or 10 of the most important tech people, a lot of these really bad things do happen.”
Joe Lonsdale Mar 21, 2024 ▶ 40:13 Ep 82: Rising Inflation? Looming Recession? The State of the Economy with Whitney Baker · Joe Lonsdale
Apr 3, 2025 negative
Insight
Cotton: Pentagon over-customizes solutions instead of buying commercial off-the-shelf tech
“At the Pentagon, as you know, Joe, there's always the tendency to make a customized bespoke solution for every problem they have. And if you're building a stealth bomber, okay, well, you can't just go out and find a company that's building stealth bombers for …”
Tom Cotton Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 6:12 Billionaire vs. U.S. Senator: Should TikTok Be Banned? · Joe Lonsdale
Sep 15, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Meyer: Palmer Luckey has no direct reports at Anduril
“Palmer Luckey is one of the founders of Anderil. Most people are under the impression that Palmer is actually the CEO of Anderil. In fact, it's Brian. And everyone at Onderell is emphatic that Brian is the decision maker, is the executive. We learned in that p…”
Max Meyer Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 16:14 The One Thing AI Will Never Replace · Joe Lonsdale
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