How Palmer Luckey, the tech CEO who sold his startup to Facebook for $2 billion, became the company's black sheep
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He founded Oculus VR, the headset company that's been described countless times as the future of virtual reality.
Facebook, which acquired Oculus for $2 billion in 2014, sees its software as the big computing platform of the next 10 years.
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Luckey was on a path to greatness as the face of the social media company's VR business.
But after less than three years, Facebook has announced Luckey is leaving the company.
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Here's how he went from tech darling to Facebook outcast:
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