John Carmack founded the famous company ID Software CEO and Executive Consultant of VR for Meta has announced that he is leaving Meta. Among the reasons for this departure, Carmack cites Meta’s inefficiency and self-sabotage as affecting his VR (virtual reality) and Metaverse efforts at the company.
John Carmack abandons Meta
Social network and metaverse company Meta (formerly Facebook) has lost one of his leading VR consultants. ID Software founder John Carmack, creator of his Doom franchise of games, has announced his departure from Meta. In a Facebook post ,, Carmack explained that his resignation as his VR consultant at the company marked the end of his decade of dedicated VR work, and that the company would continue his VR and metaverse development. revealed that it was plagued by inefficiencies in the work done towards it.
Carmack explains:
We have a tremendous amount of manpower and resources, but we constantly self-destruct. , is wasting effort. There is no way to sugar coat this. I think our organization is operating at half the efficiency that I am happy with.
Carmack said in 2014 he was part of Oculus as his CTO at Facebook when it acquired Oculus, and in 2019 he assumed a consulting role at Facebook. and dedicated his work to artificial intelligence projects.
Mea Culpa and others
But John Carmack admits he could have done more, including himself as part of the problem. Carmack explains why he decided to leave the company: Clearly not persuasive enough. A good portion of what I complain about eventually changes my ways after a year or two and the evidence piles up.
But all Not bad for Carmack. He appreciates the Quest 2, a headset made by the company, which he says has been used and valued by millions of people. The headset can be considered the current entry-level Metaverse and his VR headset offered by Meta, priced at $400, while the Meta Quest Pro, which has better tech specs, costs him $1,500. is.
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