[TriEmbed] [TAR] Another College Drop out Billionaire Made from his garage

[Heng Liu]

Great Story!


On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:35 AM, John Vaughters
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> Check out this Oculus Rift controlled Parrot  Drone.
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> Parrot Introduces Oculus Rift-Enabled Drone<http://mashable.com/2014/05/11/parrot-bebop-drone/>
> [image: image] <http://mashable.com/2014/05/11/parrot-bebop-drone/>
> Parrot Introduces Oculus Rift-Enabled Drone<http://mashable.com/2014/05/11/parrot-bebop-drone/>
> Parrot's new Bebop drone is tricked out with an HD video camera, built-in
> GPS, an array of image-stabilizing sensors and Oculus Rift compatibility.
> View on mashable.com <http://mashable.com/2014/05/11/parrot-bebop-drone/>
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> Palmer Luckey, The founder of Oculus Rift, started in his parents garage
> after dropping out of College. He came from a humble beginning with no
> serious ties to riches. He had an idea, he is a self trained Techie and he
> made it happen. He got 2.4 Million with a kickstarter campaign and recently
> Facebook bought his company for 2 Billion. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> The American Dream is alive and well. He had an idea, he is a self
> trained Techie and he made it happen.
>
> Kudos Palmer for showing us it can still happen in this world where many
> expect Gov. Funding to produce advancement. This Technology is being looked
> at for Military uses as well as just plain old gaming. Check it out, it is
> amazing and it goes right along with my prediction for BIG solutions coming
> out of the Hacking Community.
>
> I will say it again: We are a period similar to the late '70's where the
> Hacking Community was creating home computers and HUGE advancements
> appeared to the public to come from no where. I expect this time period to
> mimic what is happening in the Maker Community today and we should see a
> HUGE Technology jump in the next 1-2 decades that mimics the 80's and 90's
> in similar trans-formative technologies that changes the way we live. I
> believe the Commercialization of all this behind the scenes work started
> around 2010 and we are turning the corner with huge investments that will
> continue to drive this new paradigm.
>
> Is Palmer Lucky the next Steve Jobs?
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> John Vaughters
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