Based on that hour-long talk, I'd say Carmack just had a fundamentally different set of priorities. He seemed to be focused on latency and scale, where Meta seems to be pivoting to fidelity and graphics.
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#12“During Meta's developer conference in October, Carmack hosted a solo hour-long talk about the company's Oculus or Quest headset. He admitted he had many things to be ‘grumpy’ about, like the company's rate of progress on technological advancements and the basic functionality of the headsets. He said it was frustrating to hear from people inside Meta who found the Quest 2 headsets so unreliable that they refused to u…
I have a quest pro, and it’s pretty awesome. Zuckerberg made the argument that Microsoft spent about 10 billion on development of the first Xbox, and that turned out to be a good bet.
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#13I actually thought facebook was doing a ok job with oculus until the whole 'metaverse' social push happend
it feels like the people invovled are serverly deteacted on what people want out of VR in general
it's hard for me to imagine someone like carmack prefering to work in a envinronment like that (tearing down corp/product walls) vs building his own team and trying to solve technical challenges
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#14Based on that hour-long talk, I'd say Carmack just had a fundamentally different set of priorities. He seemed to be focused on latency and scale, where Meta seems to be pivoting to fidelity and graphics.
He’s probably the best graphics programmer in the world so I would trust his read on the priorities over whatever Meta manager handles that project
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#15John Carmack did a 5 hr podcast with Lex Fridman recently [1]. Moving away from Meta seemed like something that had been happening slowly over a long period of time. [1] https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/
Lex's guest list is absurd. I'm honestly not sure how he's managed to pull it off.
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#17He was talking about working on AI the other day. Artificial general intelligence "or die" type of challenge taking.
Guess he's getting full time busy with that.
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#18Based on that hour-long talk, I'd say Carmack just had a fundamentally different set of priorities. He seemed to be focused on latency and scale, where Meta seems to be pivoting to fidelity and graphics.
> He seemed to be focused on latency and scale, where Meta seems to be pivoting to fidelity and graphics.
Which makes sense, you want your users to be able to really take in the graphical glory of the Metaverse.
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#19“During Meta's developer conference in October, Carmack hosted a solo hour-long talk about the company's Oculus or Quest headset. He admitted he had many things to be ‘grumpy’ about, like the company's rate of progress on technological advancements and the basic functionality of the headsets. He said it was frustrating to hear from people inside Meta who found the Quest 2 headsets so unreliable that they refused to u…
I have a quest pro, and it’s pretty awesome. Zuckerberg made the argument that Microsoft spent about 10 billion on development of the first Xbox, and that turned out to be a good bet.
What is the ROI of the xbox series over time?
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#20“During Meta's developer conference in October, Carmack hosted a solo hour-long talk about the company's Oculus or Quest headset. He admitted he had many things to be ‘grumpy’ about, like the company's rate of progress on technological advancements and the basic functionality of the headsets. He said it was frustrating to hear from people inside Meta who found the Quest 2 headsets so unreliable that they refused to u…
IT projects fuck up all the time. Poor execution is baked into the human DNA. It doesn't take malice or crime to fail to be excellent. Neither the Newton nor Google glasses failed on corruption. Carmack is smart but he also failed to make his rocketry mark. Maybe individual brilliance in code is less important to execution of things than we (he?) thinks? Or maybe he only picks targets with hard end-goals versus the easy marks?