John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO
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John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO
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#3Alternative URL: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-s...
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#4Wow. this is a big win for the team. Carmack can go deep and can also look at the controls on an instinctive level since he made Doom and Quake.
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#5Wow, what a coup!
Instant and absolute legitimacy. They are in for the long haul. This is going to be real stuff.
As a fanatic of 360 photography and video, this is simply fantastic to see. The oculus has the potential to challenge what we have known as TV for half a century.
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#6Incredible! Virtual reality just got that much more serious.
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#7So, let me say this much: Fuck. Yes.
Quake 3 had stereoscopic rendering in the source back before anybody really cared, and Carmack has had long involvement both in consumer 3D graphics as well as vendor relations.
Long-short is that if you look at the code the dude has shipped, he really cares about things being both technically correct and worth hacking on. This is a really good move, and if they end up picking Mike Abrash I'll be unsurprised.
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#8Looks like his first job as CTO should be to fix the website's scalability ;)
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#9This makes me want one. This is huge news for Oculus and I wish the team the best.
I had a first glimpse of an Oculus watching someone use one on a Twitch stream the other day. He was just watching a tech demo thing of a rollercoaster ride but it was clear the tech was at or around that tipping point of interesting vs actually fun.
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#10Wait, is he leaving id? Didn't see that clarified in the article.