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There seems to be very little talk of Palmer Luckey here. He started this whole thing, and all anyone can talk about is Carmack. I'm not trying to disparage John Carmack, as that would be difficult considering his awesome achievements. And he certainly brings with him expertise and reputation advantages. I just hope more people understand where this all originated.

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If this works out like I think it will, history will give plenty of credit to Palmer Luckey.

Carmack wrote the lens distortion shaders and found a software hack in the gyros/accelerometers to get it running at a higher hz and did his own filtering of the raw data from the sensors based on his experience building autostabilizing rocket ships.

The devkit ended up using better sensors etc. , but both Luckey and Carmack were important in making the initial unit that was in the E3 demo that helped build confidence for the kickstarter.

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