The spectacularly successful life of Palmer Luckey, the 22-year-old who sold his startup to Facebook for $2 billion

Palmer Luckey isn't your average 20-something. 

He founded Oculus VR, the headset company that's been described countless times as the future of virtual reality.

Facebook, which acquired Oculus for $2 billion last year, sees its software as the big computing platform of the next 10 years.

Luckey's path to greatness doesn't follow the typical Silicon Valley roadmap.

Here's how he got where he is today: