John Carmack Leaves Meta After Working on VR for a Decade
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John Carmack Leaves Meta After Working on VR for a Decade - News John Carmack, best known as a co-founder of id Software and programmer on Doom, announced he has resigned from Meta where he worked as an executive consultant for virtual reality. It all could have happened a bit faster and been going better if different decisions had been made, but we built something pretty close to The Right Thing." "We have a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but we constantly self-sabotage and squander effort," he said. "There is no way to sugar coat this; I think our organization is operating at half the effectiveness that would make me happy. "This was admittedly self-inflicted – I could have moved to Menlo Park after the Oculus acquisition and tried to wage battles with generations of leadership, but I was busy programming, and I assumed I would hate it, be bad at it, and probably lose anyway.