The ousted founder of Facebook’s virtual-reality unit Oculus is paying a bounty to anyone who can hack his for – Business Insider India

Palmer Luckey, the Oculus VR cofounder who was ousted from Facebook amid controversy after selling his company to the tech giant for $2 billion, is offering a $5,000 bounty to anyone who can hack Oculus' new Quest 2 virtual-reality headset.

"I'm still offering $5000 for a Quest 2 jailbreak! Jailbreakers, dm me. Let's break free of FB's anti-competitive, anti-privacy ecosystem!" Mozilla VR engineer Robert Long tweeted Friday.

After selling Oculus to Facebook in 2014, Luckey gained notoriety in 2016 following The Daily Beast's report that he had donated to a controversial pro-Trump group called Nimble America that had reportedly ran misogynistic and white-supremacist political ads during that year's presidential election.

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His termination also came shortly after a judge handed down a verdict in a lawsuit brought against Oculus by VR startup Zenimax, which had accused Oculus and Luckey of stealing its intellectual property. The court ruled for Oculus on those accusations, but the jury's ruling that Oculus violated nondisclosure agreements ultimately cost Facebook $250 million.

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The ousted founder of Facebook's virtual-reality unit Oculus is paying a bounty to anyone who can hack his for - Business Insider India