What a waste of talent.
I have never been able to kill stupid things before they cause damage, or set a direction and have a team actually stick to it,"
From a related Ars Technica article
…Back in late 2021, Carmack also had some words of warning as Facebook changed its named to Meta and pivoted fully behind the amorphous idea of the metaverse. Carmack said we should be wary of “architecture astronauts” who do a lot of high-level hand-waving instead of building viable products that customers find useful.
This is the end of my decade in VR
Ah fuck this is going to set back the industry quite a bit. I was hoping to read that he was going somewhere else
Tough times to be a VR enthusiast
He recently started an AI company, so I guess that is what he will concentrate on.
About VR… yeah, but is was all a bit lost on Meta hardware. My hopes are for a new stand-alone VR head-set from Valve, rumoured to be code-named “Deckard”.
This link from Business Insider actually contains the memo in full: https://archive.vn/XRKbS
