What's your guess on how much equity they had to give him? I would have been inclined to be generous.
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#12What's your guess on how much equity they had to give him? I would have been inclined to be generous.
as much as he wants.
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#14The best news I have heard all day.Carmack was one of the reasons I choose computer Science .Now I will start taking Oculus rift seriously ,I always thought of it as a niche product.
Carmack will put some of his awesome in Rift to make it more awesome.
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#15Wait, is he leaving id? Didn't see that clarified in the article.
He doesn't necessarily have to. When Alicia Keys joined Blackberry as their Creative Director, she still kept touring ;-) (More seriously, Matz joined Heroku but I think is still at Rakuten as well?)
He will be "in the office" though:
John will be working from the new Oculus Dallas office that we’re opening soon.
.. so the likelihood of him spending a lot less time at id, if he stays on there, seems high to me.
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#16So, 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 Mik…
From his blog, Abrash seems to be much more interested in AR than VR, and seems to lean toward VR being a parallel (but mutually supportive) path to AR, rather than a step along the way.
Also, I think Newell might offer Abrash the entire company before he lets him slip away from Valve.
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#17Wow - now I'm _really_ interested in the Oculus and it's potential.
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#18So, 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 Mik…
From his blog, Abrash seems to be much more interested in AR than VR, and seems to lean toward VR being a parallel (but mutually supportive) path to AR, rather than a step along the way. Also, I think Newell might offer Abrash the entire company before he lets him slip away from Valve.
Hah, perhaps he would, at that--as I recall, it took a long time to finally cajole him over.
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#19Also seems to be confirmed he's leaving id: http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/07/oculus-rift-john-carmack-...
Re: John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO
#20What's your guess on how much equity they had to give him? I would have been inclined to be generous.
I don't think John Carmack is doing what he does for the money at this stage..
That said, he did say during his Quakecon keynote that he needs more "crazy money" to put into Armadillo Aerospace, so perhaps this is his play for that funding..