John Carmack’s presentation at Facebook Connect [video]

Post by Robotbeat » Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 5:56 PM UTC

sedatk wrote: post #69

Robotbeat wrote: post #52

It occurs to me that there are a bunch of fairly simple things that could be changed to make wireless headsets more practical for actual work. My smartphone hasn't been working, so I've been using the headset a lot more as a secondary computing device. The keyboard is not nearly as practical as it could be task switching requires quitting out of each application. The pass-through environment is only available in the…

> If there were some way to just grab controls directly in 3D space instead of using the pinch-as-a-mouse mechanism, You mean virtual controllers?

Post by mensetmanusman » Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 6:00 PM UTC

munificent wrote: post #40

dougmwne wrote: post #35

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I'd say that is the same as a dead end. Right now this is a very expensive, multi-billion dollar toy with toy demonstrator apps and proof of concept games. It needs to be a game changer and the future of something or the research funding and developer ecosystem are going to dry up. And given the amount that Facebook must be losing on the Quest 2 and the all-in nature of this launch, if this doesn't take off now, the…

> It needs to be a game changer and the future of something or the research funding and developer ecosystem are going to dry up. I hate that we live in a world so dominated by network effects, economies of scale, corporate consolidation, and shareholder value that there are fewer and fewer realms where "small success" still exists.

Post by dougmwne » Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 6:03 PM UTC

timleewards wrote: post #61

dougmwne wrote: post #20

This talk was such a treat. After all the carefuly crafted hype from Zuck and the gang, Carmack threw huge bucket of cold water on everything. I think it's just wonderful that he's allowed to speak so openly, about the things he's proud of, the things he thinks are failures, internal politics, the possibilities for improvement, the real hard physical limits VR is running into, and his growing pessimism for the future…

I sure hope you want for a pc vr headset and not the oculus quest. HTC Vive Pro and Valve Index are simply stunning and can see them become the future of gaming.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 6:06 PM UTC

gonehome wrote: post #29

I think his point about latency is a big one. I suspect a lot of the problems with videochat (and VR) has to do with this. Bad latency is frustrating and wears you down, at some point it's not worth attempting to speak up because it's tiring to deal with. In real life communication transitions between people are fast and you can overlap a bit. VR could solve the issue of what people are looking at least which I think…

Post by nvarsj » Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 6:10 PM UTC

epicide wrote: post #14

li4ick wrote: post #7

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Oh, he's improved over the years. You should watch his very first presentations, during the Quake era. I think he's taken some speaking lessons to diminish his "uhms". But yeah, he's fearless of the public, which removes his mental blocks. I used to stutter in front of the public, but the one thing that solved it for me was a course, where we had to improvise in front of a camera. At the end, the coach replayed every…

I think for a lot of people, their fear of public speaking comes from not having gone through that first time you sound legitimately dumb. For example, saying something obviously flat-out wrong and tripping over your words doing so. Up until that point, you are terrified of it happening. Once it does and you get past it, everything else seems much easier. Watching recordings of yourself sounds like a mild form of exp…