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To me his legacy might be something like “Godfather of VR. He set the bar high and pushed the market to strive for it. For some reason he handed the keys to the
by joshspankit 4y ago
To me his legacy might be something like “Godfather of VR. He set the bar high and pushed the market to strive for it. For some reason he handed the keys to the wrong people before it really hit big, but thankfully he also gave us _____ and _____.”
While I hope we get the closure of finding out why he sold to FB, I think he still has much to bring to the world.
- fezfight 4y agoIsn't Palmer Lucky the grandfather? He created occulus, the rift, and was the one who gave the keys to FB.
- joshspankit 4y agoHe certainly can be too. There’s no rules about there having to be a single grandfather. What’s important to me about Carmack is that he was unwavering about the need for high fps and low latency through the entire pixel pipeline (as well as a lot of other things), and that he brought the skills to make it possible. A VR industry based on a common denominator of 60fps with 10ms panel response times was very close to being the reality (and IMO that industry would have killed VR’s adoption for at least another decade)