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As someone who’s always looked up to carmack, unless he’s forced to do this against his will, i find it disappointing he would promote this failing meta product

As someone who’s always looked up to carmack, unless he’s forced to do this against his will, i find it disappointing he would promote this failing meta product.

droopyEyelids 4y ago
He's not just drinking the kool-aid, he's an exec in the kool-aid company hoping to build kool-aid factories and put a pipeline to a spigot next to the water faucet in every home
jandrese 4y ago
His job is basically to make it work. A lot of his points are about the current deficiencies and how he thinks he can make something compelling with more work. Everything from lag to loading times to poor integration between the two virtual environments to features he thinks would make the experience compelling.
- yrgulation 4y ago
  He’s working at meta one day a week i believe, i dont see how he can improve things. Also how much room for improvement is there for a mobile phone with a builtin vr goggle? Basically thats what the oculus is. Even carmack said there is only this much you can achieve on such a platform. Now if somehow they’d squeeze in more hardware then that could work. Or a dedicated console and stream content via wifi (wireless pc vr works quite well on oculus, albeit the headset isnt that great).
FrostKiwi 4y ago
I recommend watching last year's speech by Carmack. It gives a little perspective as to why this was targeted to be a virtual session. He is not a fan of how Meta pushes the Metaverse, "Money is flowing and enormous wheels in the company apparatus are turning" and he wants to salvage that financial energy to push technology in some meaningful way. (Pushing down audio latency on the Quest 2 was such a talking point). This shows what Meta's tech is capable of, mask off, no per-rendered CG advert and I think that's a good thing. Besides that, afaik he is largely detached from that project now and only does once a week consulting, with the main focus being his pursuit of AGI. Doesn't change of course how embarrassingly bad Meta's money invested vs results achieved are. edit: Fount the spot I referenced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo at 15:10 onward

As someone who’s always looked up to carmack, unless he’s forced to do this against his will, i find it disappointing he would promote this failing meta product.

droopyEyelids 4y ago

He's not just drinking the kool-aid, he's an exec in the kool-aid company hoping to build kool-aid factories and put a pipeline to a spigot next to the water faucet in every home

jandrese 4y ago

His job is basically to make it work. A lot of his points are about the current deficiencies and how he thinks he can make something compelling with more work. Everything from lag to loading times to poor integration between the two virtual environments to features he thinks would make the experience compelling.

yrgulation 4y ago
He’s working at meta one day a week i believe, i dont see how he can improve things. Also how much room for improvement is there for a mobile phone with a builtin vr goggle? Basically thats what the oculus is. Even carmack said there is only this much you can achieve on such a platform. Now if somehow they’d squeeze in more hardware then that could work. Or a dedicated console and stream content via wifi (wireless pc vr works quite well on oculus, albeit the headset isnt that great).

FrostKiwi 4y ago

I recommend watching last year's speech by Carmack. It gives a little perspective as to why this was targeted to be a virtual session. He is not a fan of how Meta pushes the Metaverse, "Money is flowing and enormous wheels in the company apparatus are turning" and he wants to salvage that financial energy to push technology in some meaningful way. (Pushing down audio latency on the Quest 2 was such a talking point). This shows what Meta's tech is capable of, mask off, no per-rendered CG advert and I think that's a good thing. Besides that, afaik he is largely detached from that project now and only does once a week consulting, with the main focus being his pursuit of AGI. Doesn't change of course how embarrassingly bad Meta's money invested vs results achieved are. edit: Fount the spot I referenced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo at 15:10 onward