{"id":153248,"date":"2022-12-19T21:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T03:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/john-carmack-quits-job-building-metaverse-blasts-facebook"},"modified":"2022-12-19T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T03:22:17","slug":"john-carmack-quits-job-building-metaverse-blasts-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/john-carmack-quits-job-building-metaverse-blasts-facebook","title":{"rendered":"John Carmack Quits Job Building Metaverse, Blasts Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/john-carmack-quits-job-building-metaverse-blasts-facebook2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook VR leader \u2014 and Doom creator \u2014 John Carmack has quit his advisory position at the company now known as Meta, and took to the social network to unsparingly explain his departure.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0iPixEvPJQGzNa6t2x6HUL5TYqfmKGqSgfkBg6QaTyHF5frXQi7eLGxC7uPQv5U5jl&id=100006735798590&__cft__[0]=AZXsDdV3k6gSu83P0a2jJg4FQsWHW-usRsi2ayd7dymrA9C6yBA-uWSUgw7A8Mhza8gpZFkCvbip_sJRxDvUMP273PIS0FOSQQWGmL2Cbv3HVg&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" class=\"\">Facebook post<\/a>, Carmack publicly shared his resignation email, which he said he decided to post after it had been partially leaked to the press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the end of my decade in VR,\u201d the gaming pioneer\u2019s note began. \u201cI have mixed feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook VR leader \u2014 and Doom creator \u2014 John Carmack has quit his advisory position at the company now known as Meta, and took to the social network to unsparingly explain his departure. In a Facebook post, Carmack publicly shared his resignation email, which he said he decided to post after it had been partially [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153248","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}