Palmer Luckey Announces New VR Head-Mounted Display

TapTechNews on June 5th. Recently, Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus, showed a video on his X (Twitter) account, presenting a GameBoy-like handheld console - ModRetroChromatic, which elicited a joke from XR blogger Brad Lynch: 'Wow, even Palmer prefers to release a handheld console rather than a VR head-mounted display.'

TapTechNews note: The 'HMD' mentioned in the original text is short for head-mounted display, which is directly translated as a head-mounted display, or 'head display'.

Later, Palmer Luckey stated, 'I will officially announce at the AWE conference that I'm developing a brand new VR head-mounted display!' This year's AWE USA conference will be held in Long Beach from June 18th to 20th and will focus on the history of XR devices.

According to digitaltrends, Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who originally worked for Meta, has not always agreed with Meta's concept in the VR field, and the two parted ways in 2017. In 2018, Luckey once posted on his blog that some VR products were 'even free is not cheap enough', suggesting that low-cost head-mounted displays are not the best way to advance VR.

Luckey once said that he highly approves of Apple's 'high-end line' concept of the VisionPro: What they (Apple) are doing is exactly what he has always hoped Apple would do, and this is actually what Oculus has been doing in the early years. 'In 2015, I tweeted that before VR devices can achieve the goal of 'everyone can afford it', it should first be 'everyone wants it'.