Ask HN: Anyone have any idea John Carmack's dentiment on Meta?

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I was just thinking about he said he was pulling back and going to focus on other projects? Maybe this was why.

Did you see his talk at the Meta event on October 28? Here's a liveblog https://mobile.twitter.com/badlogicgames/status/145393051764... but I'm sure there's video available somewhere.

"I want VR to subsume all our devices, from TVs to phones"

"There's some styling of the upcoming hardware as being metaverse oriented. And, I really don't like that, and I keep pushing back wherever I hear that. All of these future of work and metaverse things will work just fine on Quest 2."

Is this the talk you're referring to? https://youtu.be/BnSUk0je6oo?t=912

It was the keynote and this Q&A immediately following. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yRFEALq8hc

I don’t think Carmack is the type to fall under the guiding hand of a large organization like Meta/Facebook. That has never been how he operated his entire career. He would have found some reason to disassociate imho, but such is the case with anyone with modest anti-authority issues (it has other benefits of course, but, the good comes with the bad).

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