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Video game pioneer John Carmack has stepped down as a consultant to Meta with “mixed feelings” about “the end of his virtual reality contract,” he announced in a blog post. facebook share Friday.
Carmack remained more than company A $10 billion investment in virtual reality technology🇧🇷 And while he still believes in the potential value of VR, he questioned Meta’s expertise, stating in his post that the company has “a huge amount of people and resources, but we constantly sabotage ourselves and waste effort.”
“It’s been a struggle for me,” Carmack wrote. “I’ve got a top-notch voice here, so I feel like I should be able to push things forward, but I’m clearly not convincing enough.”
Carmack is known for his development work on Wolfenstein 3D and Quake and Doom, and was a co-founder of video game company id Software. He was an early proponent of VR and thought it wasn’t unusual for him to criticize the meta.
Carmack became CTO of Oculus in 2013. Meta Bought Oculus VR in 2014 for $2 billion and now selling the Meta Quest 2 and Quest Pro headsets. Cormack stuck by the headset, calling it a “good product” despite his “complaints” about the software.
“Successful products make the world a better place,” Cormack said. “Everything could have happened a little faster and worked better if different decisions had been made, but we built something very close to the right thing.”
Carmack still believes Meta is the best company to bring VR technology into the mainstream. CEO Mark Zuckerberg Announced in October 2021 that would take the company beyond social media and begin building the so-called metaverse, but at a huge cost.
“I think my impact on the wingers has been positive, but it’s never been a factor,” Carmack said.
When asked for comment, Meta pointed to Carmack’s post and a tweet from CTO Andrew Bosworth.
“It is impossible to overstate the impact it has had on our business and the entire industry,” said Bosworth. baby🇧🇷 “His technical prowess is widely recognized, but it’s his relentless focus on creating value for people that we will remember most. Thank you and goodbye to virtual reality.”
Meta recently announced about it Lay off 11,000 employees, the most significant job cuts in the tech giant’s history amid soaring inflation, rising interest rates and recession fears. objective Lost $9.4 billion in the first nine months of 2022 on metaverse efforts and expects unit losses to “grow significantly year-over-year” in 2023.
—CNN’s Claire Duffy and Rachel Metz contributed to this report.
