Oculus founder Palmer Luckey.Horacio Villalobos - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Palmer Luckey founded Oculus and sold it to Meta for $2 billion. He was fired from Meta in 2016. Luckey is now the CEO of defense-tech startup Anduril Industries. Palmer Luckey was 20 years old when he founded the virtual reality company Oculus VR in 2012.