TL;DR: John Carmack, a pioneer in first-person shooters, contributed significantly to VR gaming at Oculus. Despite his efforts to make Quake 3 VR official, his proposal was rejected by Microsoft. This ...

TL;DR: John Carmack, a key figure in FPS and VR gaming, shared his views on VR's niche status, emphasizing standalone headsets like Meta Quest as VR's biggest success. He noted that AAA VR content is ...

What’s incredible is he found this out all the way back in the 1990s. John Carmack is one of the video game industry’s true stalwarts, who seems to have outgrown it. Today, he no longer works on ...

Plenty of uncharitable comments here. Carmack has the right of it, eventually this will become yet another tool in the toolbox, and I expect there will be both good examples, and bad examples, of it ...

Willing to admit Sony has learned its lesson post PS3 by serving up a platform developers will want to work on, John Carmack has still cast doubt over PS Vita's long term chances. The id Software ...

Although most famously known for his system-crushing, next-gen 3D engines, id software’s John Carmack has been a passionate enthusiast of iPhone app development. He’s personally cited the platform as ...

Demonstrating the growing convergence between portable devices and games consoles, id Software's CEO John Carmack demonstrated his id Tech 5 game engine running on an iPhone 4 at QuakeCon 2010. The ...

John Carmack has left id Software. After helping found the company more than 20 years ago, where he helped craft experiences like Doom and Quake, Carmack has officially shifted his focus full time to ...