Breaking: John Carmack is leaving Meta
Based on messages he left internally at Meta, he seems to be unhappy with the way things are currently going in VR. He reportedly wrote that things have been a “struggle” for him, and that even though “I have a voice at the highest levels here, so it feels like I should be able to move things, but I’m evidently not persuasive enough,”“We built something pretty close to the right thing,” Carmack reportedly wrote about the Quest 2.
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’s decision making,It’s not the first time Carmack has been publicly unhappy with Meta’s priorities for VR. The company also killed off its mobile efforts with the Samsung Gear VR —
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