John Carmack Joins Oculus as CTO

[Jacob.pederson]

From the Oculus Kickstarter update email:

John put together a short note for the Oculus community:

?I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming ? the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and internet play, game mods, and so on. Duct taping a strap and hot gluing sensors onto Palmer?s early prototype Rift and writing the code to drive it ranks right up there. Now is a special time. I believe that VR will have a huge impact in the coming years, but everyone working today is a pioneer. The paradigms that everyone will take for granted in the future are being figured out today; probably by people reading this message. It?s certainly not there yet. There is a lot more work to do, and there are problems we don?t even know about that will need to be solved, but I am eager to work on them. It?s going to be awesome!?

This will lead to the biggest things since . . . I don't know, the JOYSTICK. I have officially never been so exited in my entire life

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