2025 But let's look at this critically — is John Carmack really that much of a pioneer? Well... yes. Even if he'd stopped at making the id Tech 1 engine that shaped Doom and a legacy of several ...

John Romero, John Carmack, Tom Hall, and Adrian Carmack recount the making of Catacomb 3-D, the team's second FPS.

Oculus CTO John Carmack, the lead programmer for classic games such as Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D who joined the VR company in 2013, took to the Google+ group of Racket, the Lisp/Scheme-family ...

TL;DR: John Carmack, a pioneer in first-person shooters, contributed significantly to VR gaming at Oculus. Despite his efforts to make Quake 3 VR official, his proposal was rejected by Microsoft.