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John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO

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Re: John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO

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Post by themstheones »

mistercow wrote: post #16
angersock wrote: post #7

So, 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.

What's AR?

Re: John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO

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Post by sbarre »

mistercow wrote: post #16
angersock wrote: post #7

So, 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.

Didn't Valve recently ditch their AR-related work when they fired Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson?

I thought they were shifting focus away from that for now..

Re: John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO

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Post by ig1 »

eterm wrote: post #9

This 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.

The difference between watching someone using it and using it is huge, using it is literally unbelievable. One of the few things that shifted my perception of what is actually possible with technology.

Re: John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO

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Post by dangoldin »

themstheones wrote: post #21
mistercow wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What's AR?

Augmented Reality (AR) vs Virtual Reality (VR).

Re: John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO

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Post by angersock »

themstheones wrote: post #21
mistercow wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What's AR?

Augmented Reality.

Re: John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO

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Post by sp332 »

eterm wrote: post #9

This 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.

"Please be careful when playing this demo," Lipowitz warned players on the Oculus developer forums, "lots of people try to support themselves on the crates when they try to stand up or when leaning up against a column, but find there is nothing there." http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/6/4595062/new-oculus-rift-cov... (The original forum is down right now)

Re: John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO

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Post by daraul »

themstheones wrote: post #21
mistercow wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What's AR?

Augmented Reality. For a good example of current projects representing each field:

Virtual Reality - Oculus Rift

Augmented Reality - Google Glass

AR sits on top of/alongside the real world, where VR tries to replace it.

Re: John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO

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Post by rcarmo »

Carmack has been edging towards this for a while now (not Oculus, but the concept), and I foresee great things.

OTOH, considering I played all of id's games up to Doom 3 (which I found a tad too creepy), I hope they strike a good balance between display smoothness and sheer unmitigated fun. I miss a good Q3A CTF.

Re: John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO

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Post by justin66 »

pearle wrote: post #10

Wait, is he leaving id? Didn't see that clarified in the article.

He talked in his Quakecon keynote about being too uninvolved in Armadillo because he was working at id/Bethesda. Splitting his time three ways would only seem to exacerbate the problem.

It's been four years since id was purchased. Maybe he's just moving on.

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