{"id":153045,"date":"2022-12-17T13:25:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/john-carmack-is-leaving-meta"},"modified":"2022-12-17T13:25:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:25:53","slug":"john-carmack-is-leaving-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/john-carmack-is-leaving-meta","title":{"rendered":"John Carmack is leaving Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carmack, known for his work in VR and on classic games like Doom and Quake, is stepping down from his consulting CTO role at Meta.<\/p>\n

John Carmack, a titan of the technology industry known for his work on virtual reality as well as classic games like Doom.<\/p>\n

Carmack originally joined Oculus as CTO in 2013, after helping to promote the original Oculus Rift prototypes that he received from Palmer Luckey, and got pulled into Meta when the company (then Facebook) acquired Oculus in 2014.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe built something pretty close to the right thing,\u201d Carmack wrote about the Quest 2. He also said that he \u201cwearied of the fight\u201d with Meta, which is burning billions<\/a> in its Reality Labs division to build things like VR headsets and software for its vision of the metaverse. Carmack would also write internal posts criticizing CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CTO Andrew Bosworth\u2019s decision making while at Meta, The New York Times<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n

Bosworth, in a tweet thanking Carmack on Friday evening<\/a>, said that it is \u201cimpossible to overstate the impact you\u2019ve had on our work and the industry as a whole. Your technical prowess is widely known, but it is your relentless focus on creating value for people that we will remember most.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t not the first time Carmack has been unhappy with Meta\u2019s priorities for VR. The company also killed off his mobile efforts with the Samsung Gear VR \u2014 \u201cwe missed an opportunity,\u201d he said at the time<\/a> \u2014 and the low-cost Oculus Go, both of which were his projects.<\/p>\n

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Carmack, known for his work in VR and on classic games like Doom and Quake, is stepping down from his consulting CTO role at Meta. John Carmack, a titan of the technology industry known for his work on virtual reality as well as classic games like Doom. Carmack originally joined Oculus as CTO in 2013, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153045","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}