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Brilliant synthesis of the problem and why it was difficult. My feeling is that Carmack is really good at speeding up important parts of video game performance
by j7ake 4y ago
Brilliant synthesis of the problem and why it was difficult.
My feeling is that Carmack is really good at speeding up important parts of video game performance to achieve qualitatively different gaming experience.
Sometimes I wonder if Carmack was born 30 years later, when computing resources make such advances less needed, he would still be as successful? Perhaps he would go on to improve performance of other problems eg virtual reality and deep learning…..
- emiliobumachar 4y agoAFAIK he did successfully improve performance in VR as part of his work in this space. He's still working currently, mostly on AGI research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack Of course being famous does open doors, but there's no reason to doubt he'd break into VR in the counterfactual. He did break into game development in reality after all.
- emiliobumachar 4y ago"computing resources make such advances less needed" That's arguable. Someone has to improve the graphics engines at Unity and Unreal, with enormous reach. There's a big potential market in porting what only runs in dedicated VR headsets and expensive gaming computers and consoles to cheaper phone-in-a-helmet VR headsets and notebook computers. Then to cheap phones and netbooks.