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A co-founder of the Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus has been accused of groping a woman during a VR session years ago. Autumn Rose Taylor, a marketing director at game studio Owlchemy Labs, tweeted the allegations yesterday against Michael Antonov. Facebook VR VP Andrew Bosworth responded to her tweets, calling the story “sickening.” A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that Antonov left Facebook earlier this year.
Taylor wrote that the incident with Antonov happened at a Game Developers Conference VR party while she was in college. (She initially described him as “a founder/exec of a well-known VR hardware company” but later revealed his name.) Taylor confirmed to Business Insider that she met Antonov at a GDC…