Plotting a comeback with a virtual border

The Silicon Valley star is back with a bang with surveillance and self-driving car technology

Palmer Freeman Luckey was the kind of wunderkind Silicon Valley venerates. When he was just 21, he made an overnight fortune selling his start-up, a company called Oculus that made virtual-reality gear, to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014.

But the success story took a sideways turn this year when Luckey was pressured to leave Facebook months after news spread that he had secretly donated to an organisation dedicated to spreading anti-Hillary Clinton internet memes. While Luckey slammed inaccuracies in the articles, the reports proved toxic in the tech industry, where hostility to President Trump is as pervasive as overpriced coffee.

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