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Re:Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation ... by koiz on Monday October 22, 2018 @05:47PM (#18278815)
The funny thing is Carmack only works on the mobile headsets and has been for awhile. He knows that's the future.
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Re:Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation ... by rocky1138 on Monday October 22, 2018 @08:38PM (#18279880)
Really? Where did you read that? I always thought that he worked on the mobile-first headsets because they are a more interesting technical challenge for him.
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Re:Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation ... by ss248 on Monday October 22, 2018 @07:10PM (#18279391)
Not really actually. Originally he started doing all that mobile stuff mostly because of Zenimax's lawsuit.
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Re:Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation ... by erikpukinskis on Monday October 22, 2018 @08:28PM (#18279843)
Do you have a source on that? It seems like a much better fit for his talents than the PC stuff. He's doing low level super critical performance optimization, and technical product direction.

Performance doesn't matter nearly as much on the PC side, because there's so much more headroom in the hardware, and the technical product direction can just flow out of what game companies need.

The mobile side is a true technical challenge where a person like Carmack can literally make the difference between go and no-go.

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