{"id":153043,"date":"2022-12-17T13:25:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/vr-mastermind-john-carmack-leaves-meta-for-good-and-goes-all-in-on-agi"},"modified":"2022-12-17T13:25:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:25:11","slug":"vr-mastermind-john-carmack-leaves-meta-for-good-and-goes-all-in-on-agi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/vr-mastermind-john-carmack-leaves-meta-for-good-and-goes-all-in-on-agi","title":{"rendered":"VR mastermind John Carmack leaves Meta for good and goes all in on AGI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vr-mastermind-john-carmack-leaves-meta-for-good-and-goes-all-in-on-agi.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Metaverse was a huge, company destroyin, blunder. Smart move this decade is Drop Everything else and chase Agi.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>VR pioneer John Carmack is leaving Meta for good. With his departure, the industry loses a visionary and an important voice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carmack published his farewell letter on Facebook after parts of the email were leaked to the press.<\/p>\n<p>In the message to employees, Carmack, as usual, doesn\u2019t mince words. He cites a lack of efficiency and his powerlessness to change anything about this circumstance as reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metaverse was a huge, company destroyin, blunder. Smart move this decade is Drop Everything else and chase Agi. VR pioneer John Carmack is leaving Meta for good. With his departure, the industry loses a visionary and an important voice. Carmack published his farewell letter on Facebook after parts of the email were leaked to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}