Some Developers Dropping Oculus Support to Protest Founder’s Politics [Updated]
A lot of people do not understand that this stench won’t wash off - you support the alt right and there will be consequences, it’s not just a political movement, it is a philosophy of hate and anti-science.
Hey Oculus, Palmer Luckey’s actions are unacceptable,” writes Tomorrow Today Labs, a company working on VR physics middleware and an unannounced VR game. “NewtonVR will not be supporting the Oculus Touch as long as he is employed there.”
Newcomer indie developer Scruta Games, which is currently working on a number of VR titles, echoed the same sentiment. “Until Palmer Luckey steps down from his position at Oculus, we will be cancelling Oculus support for our games,” the company tweeted.
At least one non-gaming VR developer is thinking the same way. “I backed Oculus’s kickstarter, bought developer kits, was working to adapt non-gaming tools for work site management,” Mark Sumner writes in a series of tweets. “Not any more. Oculus is FAR from the only product on the VR market. And it can just gather dust from now on.”
The outcry has already spread far enough to start inspiring jokes, too. “I’m dropping Oculus support from the risotto I’m making,” Erwin Vogelaar teased on Twitter. Other online withdrawals of support seem less genuine. “I’m dropping Oculus support for Mallow Drops,” writes John Kane of his 2D puzzle platform project that doesn’t seem very suited for VR in the first place.
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