Former id Software developer John Carmack decided to weigh in on the thought experiment. Having created the Doom graphics engine in just 28 hours on "vintage hardware," his expertise provided some ...

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.

John Carmack is no longer at Meta, but over the weekend, the talented programmer took to X to post his feelings on the current state of VR - specifically PC VR gaming.

– John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) December 6, 2024. Modern rendering engines in games rely heavily on the render-to-texture process, which isn't well-suited for multiple daisy-chained GPUs.

On the afternoon of Oct. 21, 2021, Mary Carmack-Altwies, the district attorney for New Mexico’s First Judicial District, was driving along a lonely stretch of the mountain highway connecting ...

Lantz Mills roots stretch back to the 1760s when a family with deaf loved ones settled in the small Virginia town.

John Carmack was not only on the floor at QuakeCon 2023, but held an impromptu meet-and-greet with the help of the staff and attended the Quake Champions tournament. Source: John Carmack.

John Carmack was consulting CTO to Meta's VR division until his resignation. He's now CEO of Keen Technologies. He previously cofounded id Software.

And on the possibility of teaming up with Carmack to make an all-new Doom game: "John and I wouldn't work on a DOOM game—it would be a new game. But he's not into game dev so much anymore." ...

Legendary game developer John Carmack has defended his decision to attend a science fiction and fantasy convention for "non-leftist" writers, following social media criticism.

Carmack stepped into the role of CTO for Oculus (now called Reality Labs) in 2013, and is shutting the door behind him after nearly ten years, having served as consulting CTO since 2019.

Video game pioneer John Carmack is resigning from his consulting position at Meta with “mixed feelings” about the “end of his decade in VR,” he announced in a Facebook post Friday.