Palmer Luckey is giving away free audio repair kits for Oculus Rift owners
It’s not too often that co-founders, let alone co-founders that were quietly pushed out of the company they created, go out of their way to help their former employer with a product issue. But Palmer Luckey, who started Oculus VR and left parent company Facebook in 2017, is doing just that.
In a blog post, Luckey says he’s offering free audio repair kits to owners of the initial consumer version of the Oculus Rift headset, which suffers from a widespread audio cutout issue that Luckey says is caused by a “failure of the complex electromechanical assembly that gets audio from the Rift to your ears.” The RR1 kit, for “Rift Repair One,” took Luckey less than three hours to design, he says, but he went on to perform intensive testing using...