Yeah the Rift is a great invention and Palmer Luckey was very young when he started posting about it on mtbs3d. I have the DK2 on pre-order and have been following it for a year now.I googled coolest invention of 2013, came up with oculus rift. Was invented by a college dropout. I don't feel like doing major research into the subject, but its nice to have my first shot in the dark be a hit.
There's two problems with your suggestion though:
1. The real technical work in moving that technology forward beyond the hacking he did in his basement is being done by giants in the perception, sensor fusion, inertial measurement and game programming field. Luckey had enough vision to hack together a samsung panel and some lenses to realize the tech was there, and had the ability to market it to the right people. But he's not personally responsible for the truly novel work they're doing. The low persistence panels, the sub30ms action to photon time, the sub-CM accuracy pose estimation work and the programmatic efficiency are all improvements to the tech space being done by people with experience and credentials in the field.
2. I should have been more specific, we're talking about publications here, not tech startups. We're talking about scientific discoveries.
Here's the quote you responded to:
Which publications were done by people with no experience, publication history and sometimes even formal education?Tuco_sl said:I'd love to see a listing of the revolutionary publications of the last century and how much publication and credentials the publisher had before that.