It's funny people talk about Palmer and carmack in vr but Oculus was built on appropriated valve tech and neither Palmer or Carmack have succeeded in making VR a thing.
As far as I can tell Carmack is an old engineer whose name gets thrown around for headlines. If there weren't articles about his stealing stuff to take to Oculus I don't think his presence there would be observable.
Now people are talking like Carmack switching topics is going to change the world. It's just going to change his schedule. There are smarter engineers already working on this problem.
I just don't see this massive string of successes in every field. I see his huge expertise in graphics engines and games.
But it didn't help him with VR - in fact he got in trouble with VR and ended up landing with a company I have no respect for and he didn't make VR a thing.
Many people have a way of looking at things differently. I just don't see the reason this is news, unless you own facebook shares or something. Even then zero effect.
I say all this as the owner of two VR headsets (A vive for roomscale and a Lenovo Explorer for simracing/flying).
As far as I can tell Carmack is an old engineer whose name gets thrown around for headlines. If there weren't articles about his stealing stuff to take to Oculus I don't think his presence there would be observable.
Now people are talking like Carmack switching topics is going to change the world. It's just going to change his schedule. There are smarter engineers already working on this problem.