Magnus Andersson True.. Sony have also been playing around with it on their own. But without John carmacks knowledge on the technical stuff, it would not have gone far. ;) He helped out indeed. Also with the Gear VR.
Yeah, Jobs was a marketing man with some tangential technical knowledge, he never really got his hands dirty, he just took credit for the hard work of others like Wozniak.
He is all over it - He works on what he feels has the most leverage, both playing to his skills and maximize benefit for human civilization - as soon as he wants to work for SpaceX or Tesla, once VR has been exhausted - he is there!
I was notified of this comment i made 5 years ago. In the last 5 years, I became a total VR evangelist. I started a gamdev company and released a VR game (Espire 1). I got to meet both John Carmack(!) and Stephen Totilo and show them Espire 1. Didn't imagine VR would evolve as quickly as it has been.
carmack or romero invented 'godmode' annnnd :) without the software latency improvements from carmack, the brain would basically reject the experience thinking you had poisoned yourself. but they all made it happen, which is great.
I'm reviewing this video 10 years after the date, its very surreal on how accurate John Carmack was on how vr would continue. He knew that google glasses would go no where and how vr would slowly shift into being used on phones.
Its really cool, and im right here with you. Its so fun to have the rift next to me seeing him build it again. Look little buddy, thats your grandpa haha. You inherited the built in speakers from the sony too, I guess thats your grandma? But in seriousness, his predictions remain spot on, I mean you really could see the writing on the wall if you had the tiniest bit of vision. AR remains the direction with the best commercial potential, but the dream of the holodeck is his, and my, passion as he says. So you can see exactly how we got here, and thats really cool. His insights into pulling code from low level stuff that was still assuming it needed to wait for phosphors to dissipate because the were written in the age of the CRT is so obvious in hindsight, but was such an important and visionary thing to have come in and done. Like, this stuff had been around how long, and nobody had done it? Seeing the whole pipeline as one coherent chain and having the broad low level aptitude to get in there and bust up and rebuild the weakest links till it was a strong cable, like, his work is literally why VR is viable today and every headset owes him that legacy. And thats not even his highest contribution, the man is actually a genius. Someone once said its like Tesla and Hawking came down but instead of unlocking all the secrets of the universe and taking over the world they got really into virtual worlds instead, and it really feels very true. So glad to have him, he really does deserve all he credit, praise and general good feelings he gets. Extraordinary person.
I thought him calling out display latency was interesting too. I think that's what valve ended up honing into with their index. Pretty cool video to listen to from the future
12:10 Can we just appreciate that he just casually describes a modern headset? Camera tracking, a mobile platform as a base (although today headsets use Android, not iOS), wireless? Carmack could just tell what's going to happen in technology in the next decade already while having a first duct taped prototype on his desk
@@Woodie7 No need to be smug about it. The journalist is able to recognize someone who is smarter than him and can commend Carmack on it. What more could you possibly expect? It's already great, as truly stupid people often cannot even understand how much smarter their conversation partner is. Those who do recognize it are often jealous or defensive, and try to put down or one up their conversation partner in order to feel better. The journalist has shown himself to be decently intelligent and a man of integrity, if he was too much smarter he wouldn't be a journalist. I think this is one of the best realistically possible outcomes.
@@Woodie7 certainly not. though I am sure you've combed your whispy neckbeard about 15 times since you wrote that thinking people will admire the whit when they read these comments on a scroll in 1000 years.
Here is an old quote from him: _"Honestly, I spend very little time thinking about past events, and I certainly don't have them ranked in any way. I look back and think that I have done a lot of good work over the years, but I am much more excited about what the future holds."_ (Video Games Daily, 2006-01-03).
Carmack : You want me to restart it with..? Dude : No, no, no... Wtf? If i was in his position, i would say to Carmack : Restart it, yes, and let me play your masterpiece with keyboard and mouse until my eyes burned!
John saw all this coming a mile away and instead of sitting on the sidelines, he pushed it...hard. Until we have so many options for amazing headsets these days. Thank you so much for your vision and efforts John! You truly are an inspiration to me sir.
@Алексей Прокопенко he is like a father of fps One of the most important person in history Also he was interested in other things he loved cars and also creating some kind of experiments to create super fast car
@@rolanddeschain9880 Simply put. John's IQ has to be something in the level of "insanely high". Not to mention not just IQ, but he seems really easy to interact with. Overall really clever guy, all around.
@@Eventhorizon1122 Kotaku is a cesspool of masked-up progressive dipshits who will always vote Democrat because some celebrity told them Trump is bad and still think COVID is a big deal.
This man is the Nikola Tesla of video games, underrated technical genius that doesn't get the recognition he truly deserves. Nearly all big AAA franchises started up with a licensed and modified Doom or Quake3D engine.
Sweet jesus, he said "Oculus Rift" like it was this new thing that no one's heard of (which it was in early 2012). I bookmarking this video. This is seriously a massive turning point in mainstream technology, with the virtual reality giant Oculus Rift being shown off for pretty much the first time (seriously, only 30 other people tried this particular build, and so early too) and the prospects of augmented reality becoming widespread. Man, I love nerds. This is going to be a fun next couple years.
Eh, quality "Rift" style VR is still a little too expensive to be mainstream (higher-end GPU + multi-hundred dollar headset in a system capable of supporting them), but it's getting there.
This is an example of a total nerd (who I'm sure was made fun of in high school) who goes on in life to become the god of the largest entertainment industry on the planet.
John is a badass, he supercharges ferraris so much that he pissed off the actual company because of how intense he was modding the ferrari. he got in a lot of trouble as a kid. John makes fucking rockets. He is a true badass
He spent a year in a juvenile home as a kid because he and his friends developed a thermite paste to burn through the glass windows of a school to get their hands on some Apple IIs.
This is the look of a man who truly enjoys what he does; a true nerd. Not once does he ever stop smiling as he explains everything in laymen's terms and all the difficulties that have been faced.
Last E3 this was almost a footnote. People that saw it were blown away but there wasn't much coverage. A year later, the dev kit is out, and people are getting more excited by the day. Long live Carmack!
+Michael Powell - those are not verbal tics. John Carmack has some kind speech disfunctionality that when he can hit the wall (like certain syllables) and not being able to fluently speak. And what looks like "tics" is actually medical technique which allows such people to speak fluently.
+Magnus Andersson John has it as technique to overcome speaking disfunctionality. Elon has it as part of his "humble genius act". John is 100% tech guy. Elon is 50% marketer, 50% con artist.
Not bad, a little heavy though, can't wear it more than 20-30 minutes. And video is not clear unfortunately. 2-3 more years to go for a really good product@@lifeisdead01
Man, I love listening to John Carmack explain stuff. He's so good at explaining concepts that you actually feel as if you're getting smarter as you listen to him.
That mortal was not worthy of interviewing the great John Carmack and his futuristic technology. Didn't even sound like he knew what a pixel was either. I liked though, because i got to once again witness the definition of genius.
Not sure how you could glean his intelligence when he barely got two words in the whole interview, lol, it was pretty much a Carmack "stream of consciousness", which is how most of his interviews tend to go.
Carmack i thank you for all the fun you brought in my life with Doom 1 & 2 Doom 3 and with the Qake and Wolfestein games i play them even today Doom dont let me go i play it every day
Very well said. Having even remote knowledge of how things work as whole. John seems to have incredible talent to also bring the ideas and issues into public. Clever guy in many areas.
Not only did he bring new life to VR with his 2012 prototype but he imagined solutions to shortcomings that weren't even present yet. It was brought to my attention that Lucky Palmer designed this prototype and that John Carmack presented the device at E3 2012 as shown here. The more you know.
@@ifrit35 Not sure why. Ive been following VR since Lucky Palmer first showed his prototype, I knew it was the future of gaming and waited a long time to finally get into VR.
Totally agree.. the interviewer sounds like a guy who buys technology because it's trendy or hip..i.e. Google Glass.. He has no flippin' clue what Carmack is talking about. You can really see John's passion for what he does..
My peas tasted a little odd at dinner, so I took them apart and found a few odd things in there. So I decided to speak to the farm that grew them and got them to change the way they grew them, which instantly made them taste better. Then I decided to invent my own pea and now it tastes good
I liked how he mentioned in a couple of years have the device be untethered with a couple of cameras on front. You see the real world (likely arenas that are also mapped in the computer) and whatever gets rendered over the image. Walk around town, with useful rendered info at your beck and call.
"Where this will go in maybe a couple years is instead of being tethered to a PC you build it off of mobile phone hardware-- you know, an iPhone 5 or whatever with optics on there integrated with all of this so no teth- no wires, use the cameras for absolute optical position reckoning...and then you could literally walk around." - Carmack, June 5, 2012. June 21, 2019, Oculus Quest releases to the public.
Although that is just common sense for anyone who has been around for the last 20 years. Everything moves towards mobile chips because it uses less power and is far more portable. It was inevitable.
What a beautiful supplement to "The history of the future" book, it's crazy we can read about those pivotal moments and actually watch how they happened. Thank you for the video!
Jeez, if this guy keeps talking, he might discover the meaning of life. Anyways, very smart, very articulate and very down-to-earth kind of guy. We need people like this in every field.
Pretty much everything he wanted to do with this technology has happened, I'm sat here with my Quest 2 realising just how far VR has come in the past 10 years, it's insane.
@@djchristian82 I often play 3-4 hours sessions and won't get any kind of headache. The technology is far from perfect, but it has done huge steps forward the right direction
I would consider it a highlight of my entire life, to be able to sit there 1-on-1 with John Carmack and just listen to him go in-depth about all these amazing concepts and extremely intricate tech jargon - a lot of which is beyond me. To be able to sit next to him with his project on my head, while I show him how much I appreciate Doom 3...words can't even describe how unbelievably grateful I'd be. This man talking to him is an absolute charlatan and uninspired, miserable asshat. What an embarrassment. What an insult.
I'm a fan of this man for about 25 years. I hope he returns to Id Software to make incredible games. He is a genius, a software and coding wizard. He better return to gaming industry.
I don't understand how the Rift had this guy behind it... John freaking Carmack. Years of development with this genius, brilliant product comes out. Then BAM out of nowhere, theres the HTC vive with comparable almost identical performance. I totally don't get how this can happen, I know John Carmack isn't the only computer genius out there, but surely he has something special that should make the Rift superior to the Vive? I just don't seem to see it in any reviews.
+Storm Gaming Media People might buy htc vive because "Facebook" bought oculus. If a game company bought it, then it would be another story. Also, he is probably limited in that company with all of his talent!
that 'BAM, out of nowhere' was because of all the work valve did once they got the rift DK1 formfactor and started playing with R&D. This video really was the start of modern VR as we know it today. If you look back even further, Palmer Luckey was making prototypes in 2009, maybe earlier.
I really support Gear VR and oculus. (Mostly because John carmack also has been working with it.) I love John carmack and his work on this!!! I thought about this yesterday... What a genius. ;) he started to push this out to the public. But also sony that has worked on project morpheus. ;) I just sometimes wish "facebook" did not buy it, that's all.. I got an Gear VR, but might get a HTV vive in the future because of the controllers and stuff. And yeah, HTC vive has been playing around with DK1 probably. But Oculus got Gear VR, and that is more portable.
"Do you want to try again?" - "No, its ok, its ok" Why god why, do tasteless people get to eat the best food and even record it for us to see them say "no, its okay, lets talk about google glasses". So sad.
when the only improvement to doom3 the interviewer knows about is "flashlight on the armour" i wanted to scream. carmack is kicking ass, sharing amazing insights and techniques and all the asshat talking to him can say is "flashlight on the armour"
Watching this in 2022 and seeing the oculus rift being a kickstarter and a hobby from the man who created doom is wild. The fact that he new to put his eggs in the proverbial correct basket with vr is so surreal. Now Zuck is trying to get us all into the metaverse lol
Reading this 2022 comment of a 2012 interview in 2023, after John Carmack quit the company that started as his hobby, is even wilder. He left behind the VR product that he always* wanted to make - Oculus/Facebook/Meta Quest 2 @ $299 - but from an organization whose inefficiency frustrated him to no end - Facebook/Meta.
Ancient egyptians pursued transcendence through leaving behind gigantic stone monuments. This guy reaches transcendence through leaving awesome technology in this world which will make kids all over the world happy for generations and generations. What a badass.
I love that Carmack never tries to "dumb down" the terminology for interviewers. He respects their intelligence (even if they/I only have a tenuous understanding of what he's saying, lol).
how is this guy green lighted to interview John. dude took goggles off after 2 seconds like he was disgusted. like "nah im good." cant even handle a little VR. guys not even a real gamer.
The optics on the Rift are focused to infinity, meaning that far sighted people will not have any trouble at all. Near sighted people might have some trouble, but only on the developer model. This isn't going to be an issue on the consumer model as they have said repeatedly that adjustable focus will definitely be a feature.
Imagine the companies out there, investing years and millions in developing in this VR technology and then comes John Carmack, starts a new hobby out of boredom and puts all their work to shame
I'm sure it was a tough choice but I'm really happy they went with the interviewer who had no understanding of the innovation he was slouching next to and asked near-insulting questions to an industry legend. Can we get more of this guy? I love the Peter Molyneux's dipshit cousin look he's going for.
You know, it irks me when people say John Carmack is a robot or alien. He's just a dude. He's not a super savant, he's pretty grounded. My brother and I used to work at a cafe in Dallas and he would pop by with his family. He's just a dude and creative in a right brained organized way. ♥
Well, he forgot to implement absolute positional tracking with the camera in Gear VR. It was cool that he talks about Note 5 and better resolution screen as we move ahead in the future. This man knows what he's talking about and is seeing into the future.
Ok I've been through the Id Software documentary first and then looked at this video. This guy is a complete genius! Oculus Rift is the next best thing (well in 5years from now manybe but still this guy is pushing and pushing againg the limit of technology and he's been doing it for more than 20 years now!) Huge hand up!
"this is my hobby project"
- John Carmack on early Oculus Rift technology.
+Eck
Carmack started the revolution!
Palmer Luckey started the revolution, Carmack helped.
Palmer went quixotic , Carmack control freak'd
Magnus Andersson
True.. Sony have also been playing around with it on their own.
But without John carmacks knowledge on the technical stuff, it would not have gone far. ;) He helped out indeed. Also with the Gear VR.
shp0ngle well he did co-create the first person shooter genre...
Interviewer was tapping out by the end of this, struggling to string a simple question together, bludgeoned senseless by Carmack’s pace and delivery
John Carmack is like the Steve Jobs of developers, except he actually can make what he talked about.
OSD a more fitting Apple comparison would be to Steve Wozniak
OSD
Steve Jobs is a personality and a con man. He’s not an engineer.
Knights of the Nine steve jobs may not have the technical know how to develop these products, but he has good vision of a product he wants to create.
Yeah, Jobs was a marketing man with some tangential technical knowledge, he never really got his hands dirty, he just took credit for the hard work of others like Wozniak.
Knights of the Nine con man? Apple isn’t where it’s today because of your daddy
Casually takes code from fiber optic gyros in rockets and integrates it into a VR headset.
+Sean Foreman This guy is as close we have to a Tony Stark.
Imagine having fuckin' John Carmack and Elon Musk together...
+John Mullen Elon musk tweeted carmack years ago offering him a gig
He is all over it - He works on what he feels has the most leverage, both playing to his skills and maximize benefit for human civilization - as soon as he wants to work for SpaceX or Tesla, once VR has been exhausted - he is there!
"this is one of those things that didn't cost anything, that was just a little software development"
This is such a pivotal moment in the history of VR to date. Imagine watching this review again in 40 years time.
i dont know if vr is going to be the thing i think mr is going to make it succesfull
"One small step for man..."
"He's gonna make a Kickstarter and sell a few hundred units..."
Words that defined history.
Metaverse
I was notified of this comment i made 5 years ago. In the last 5 years, I became a total VR evangelist. I started a gamdev company and released a VR game (Espire 1). I got to meet both John Carmack(!) and Stephen Totilo and show them Espire 1. Didn't imagine VR would evolve as quickly as it has been.
First time I'm watching this interview of him. Now I have a Quest 2, imagine the VR glasses 20 years from now...
Carmack is always in god mode. #legend
Carmack didnt make it, Palmer Luckey did
@@jupit3r131 Yeah, software was written by Palmer Luckey too?
@@jupit3r131 Rosey Palmer didn't create Doom.
carmack or romero invented 'godmode' annnnd :) without the software latency improvements from carmack, the brain would basically reject the experience thinking you had poisoned yourself. but they all made it happen, which is great.
I'm reviewing this video 10 years after the date, its very surreal on how accurate John Carmack was on how vr would continue. He knew that google glasses would go no where and how vr would slowly shift into being used on phones.
Its really cool, and im right here with you. Its so fun to have the rift next to me seeing him build it again. Look little buddy, thats your grandpa haha. You inherited the built in speakers from the sony too, I guess thats your grandma?
But in seriousness, his predictions remain spot on, I mean you really could see the writing on the wall if you had the tiniest bit of vision. AR remains the direction with the best commercial potential, but the dream of the holodeck is his, and my, passion as he says. So you can see exactly how we got here, and thats really cool.
His insights into pulling code from low level stuff that was still assuming it needed to wait for phosphors to dissipate because the were written in the age of the CRT is so obvious in hindsight, but was such an important and visionary thing to have come in and done. Like, this stuff had been around how long, and nobody had done it? Seeing the whole pipeline as one coherent chain and having the broad low level aptitude to get in there and bust up and rebuild the weakest links till it was a strong cable, like, his work is literally why VR is viable today and every headset owes him that legacy.
And thats not even his highest contribution, the man is actually a genius. Someone once said its like Tesla and Hawking came down but instead of unlocking all the secrets of the universe and taking over the world they got really into virtual worlds instead, and it really feels very true.
So glad to have him, he really does deserve all he credit, praise and general good feelings he gets. Extraordinary person.
I thought him calling out display latency was interesting too. I think that's what valve ended up honing into with their index. Pretty cool video to listen to from the future
Carmack hands him one of the first Rift prototypes ever built. A piece of history. The dude is completely uninterested.
The dude was totally rushing him to and trying to cut him off.
@@Bangulo exactly, how awful, if the knew what he was holding
So what?
Kotaku is full of SJWs who pose as nerds.
@@Jay_Sullivan yeah kotaku is garbage
12:10 Can we just appreciate that he just casually describes a modern headset? Camera tracking, a mobile platform as a base (although today headsets use Android, not iOS), wireless? Carmack could just tell what's going to happen in technology in the next decade already while having a first duct taped prototype on his desk
This is historical video.
Yep.
I could listen to John talk all day.
Well, here's your chance: ua-cam.com/video/I845O57ZSy4/v-deo.html
"He is gonna make a Kickstarter, and he is gonna sell a few hundreds units."
IKR I got goosebumps when he said
Zuck: How do i send 6 billion to Kickstarter?
"John Carmack, you're a smart man." The greatest understatement of all time
Saying that to Carmack seems condescending. And who is saying that ? Some journalist. Who cares what he thinks of John Carmack ? Ridiculous
@@Woodie7 No need to be smug about it. The journalist is able to recognize someone who is smarter than him and can commend Carmack on it. What more could you possibly expect? It's already great, as truly stupid people often cannot even understand how much smarter their conversation partner is. Those who do recognize it are often jealous or defensive, and try to put down or one up their conversation partner in order to feel better.
The journalist has shown himself to be decently intelligent and a man of integrity, if he was too much smarter he wouldn't be a journalist. I think this is one of the best realistically possible outcomes.
@@Woodie7 Who cares what woodie7 thinks about anything at all?
@@homelessrobot you, apparently :)
@@Woodie7 certainly not. though I am sure you've combed your whispy neckbeard about 15 times since you wrote that thinking people will admire the whit when they read these comments on a scroll in 1000 years.
Here is an old quote from him: _"Honestly, I spend very little time thinking about past events, and I certainly don't have them ranked in any way. I look back and think that I have done a lot of good work over the years, but I am much more excited about what the future holds."_ (Video Games Daily, 2006-01-03).
That's really a good way to look at life in general - good or bad, don't get bogged down in the past, move forward.
True, the past is the past. If there is a lesson to be learned, then learn. But other than that, just move on.
@@yellowblanka6058 That's mostly typical mindset of very curious and "thirsty for knowledge" people.
@@GaaraSama1983 True, but I think people in general either mentally live in their "glory days" or ruminate on the past.
He said something very similar recently on Lex Fridman's podcast.
This man is so brilliant. He has the rare type of mind, with strengths in intuition and analysis, that allow for his creative drive
He's a good mix between the two types of brains.
"I forgot to put you in God mode"
I have no doubt Carmack has the power to do just that.
Carmack : You want me to restart it with..?
Dude : No, no, no...
Wtf? If i was in his position, i would say to Carmack : Restart it, yes, and let me play your masterpiece with keyboard and mouse until my eyes burned!
+Marios Koutras he probably got motion sick and didnt want to mention it!
+Marios Koutras Only 30 people before him tried it, screw nausea I would go for another round
have you ever been motion sick?
when they have goggles with 144hz displays with 1ms response times THEN i might not get so sick wearing them :S
@@phaedruslykos3249 hi its me the future and the technology is out :)
144hz valve index
John saw all this coming a mile away and instead of sitting on the sidelines, he pushed it...hard. Until we have so many options for amazing headsets these days.
Thank you so much for your vision and efforts John! You truly are an inspiration to me sir.
The fact that they didn't have this knowledge whilst developing VR amazes me more than his findings/tips/updates.
He's doing the same kind of early push with AI as well now. He just received a $20M investment for his AGI startup
John Carmack is a computer god...
No shit eh. Absolutely agree.
@Алексей Прокопенко he is like a father of fps
One of the most important person in history
Also he was interested in other things he loved cars and also creating some kind of experiments to create super fast car
God in general.
@@rolanddeschain9880 Simply put. John's IQ has to be something in the level of "insanely high". Not to mention not just IQ, but he seems really easy to interact with. Overall really clever guy, all around.
History in the making. Carmack knew it. The reporter, not so much.
What did you expect? Its Stephen Totilo from Kotaku. Only thing they care about is how racist games are.
@@Eventhorizon1122 Kotaku is a cesspool of masked-up progressive dipshits who will always vote Democrat because some celebrity told them Trump is bad and still think COVID is a big deal.
Man :) what a genius. Thanks John for all you do to push tech to its limits.
Amen!!
This man is the Nikola Tesla of video games, underrated technical genius that doesn't get the recognition he truly deserves. Nearly all big AAA franchises started up with a licensed and modified Doom or Quake3D engine.
only words that should be coming out of the other dude's mouth should have been "i'm not worthy!"
One of the true geniuses of software developement
In 50 years this video will be looked back on as the history of the VR gaming world.
More like 10 or 20.
Carmack is a legend and a genius.
Sweet jesus, he said "Oculus Rift" like it was this new thing that no one's heard of (which it was in early 2012). I bookmarking this video. This is seriously a massive turning point in mainstream technology, with the virtual reality giant Oculus Rift being shown off for pretty much the first time (seriously, only 30 other people tried this particular build, and so early too) and the prospects of augmented reality becoming widespread. Man, I love nerds. This is going to be a fun next couple years.
Eh, quality "Rift" style VR is still a little too expensive to be mainstream (higher-end GPU + multi-hundred dollar headset in a system capable of supporting them), but it's getting there.
Oculus Quest owner here... the future’s looking great!!
then he basically described what the Quest would become near the end.
This is an example of a total nerd (who I'm sure was made fun of in high school) who goes on in life to become the god of the largest entertainment industry on the planet.
***** truest of truths
But he is still a nerd, just successful, but a nerd.
John is a badass, he supercharges ferraris so much that he pissed off the actual company because of how intense he was modding the ferrari. he got in a lot of trouble as a kid. John makes fucking rockets. He is a true badass
Amaranthus616 STEM is where the world is heading, and all of these "nerds" are pretty much the entire future of the human race.
He spent a year in a juvenile home as a kid because he and his friends developed a thermite paste to burn through the glass windows of a school to get their hands on some Apple IIs.
This is the look of a man who truly enjoys what he does; a true nerd. Not once does he ever stop smiling as he explains everything in laymen's terms and all the difficulties that have been faced.
Last E3 this was almost a footnote. People that saw it were blown away but there wasn't much coverage. A year later, the dev kit is out, and people are getting more excited by the day. Long live Carmack!
Carmack's verbal tics remain adorable on there.
+Michael Powell Must be sign of genius, Elon musk had similar, but he seem to have trained it away.
+Michael Powell They are thinking so fast, their speech cannot keep up.
I love how open he is
+Michael Powell - those are not verbal tics. John Carmack has some kind speech disfunctionality that when he can hit the wall (like certain syllables) and not being able to fluently speak.
And what looks like "tics" is actually medical technique which allows such people to speak fluently.
+Magnus Andersson John has it as technique to overcome speaking disfunctionality. Elon has it as part of his "humble genius act".
John is 100% tech guy. Elon is 50% marketer, 50% con artist.
Wow I just felt like time travel for a moment. Just ordered my meta quest 3, it's coming in 2 days. My first VR headset. Exciting times
How do you like it?
Not bad, a little heavy though, can't wear it more than 20-30 minutes. And video is not clear unfortunately. 2-3 more years to go for a really good product@@lifeisdead01
Man, I love listening to John Carmack explain stuff.
He's so good at explaining concepts that you actually feel as if you're getting smarter as you listen to him.
man, I can't wait till John Carmack's goggles come out.
The man's a genius.
did you get them? They are quite good :)
I hope you found the goggles satisfactory 👍
That mortal was not worthy of interviewing the great John Carmack and his futuristic technology.
Didn't even sound like he knew what a pixel was either. I liked though, because i got to once again witness the definition of genius.
Not sure how you could glean his intelligence when he barely got two words in the whole interview, lol, it was pretty much a Carmack "stream of consciousness", which is how most of his interviews tend to go.
Carmack is a guy who could have done anything he wanted in the world of mathematics and science, and I also think he did.
Carmack i thank you for all the fun you brought in my life with Doom 1 & 2 Doom 3 and with the Qake and Wolfestein games i play them even today Doom dont let me go i play it every day
"5 years from now, augmented reality glasses will be as ubiquitous as bluetooth headsets" lol
Google dropped the ball on that one..
@@AtomicGoober If only it was on that one
Amazing, he can explain things so well too
Very well said. Having even remote knowledge of how things work as whole. John seems to have incredible talent to also bring the ideas and issues into public. Clever guy in many areas.
Man he had the Quest already planned in his mind back then. I'm so happy they got it to market. I love my oculus quest so much
Damn he had the entire vision worked out back then.
This is a masterful exposition of how 3D tech works and how it is going to evolve. Thanks Mr. Carmack!
Not only did he bring new life to VR with his 2012 prototype but he imagined solutions to shortcomings that weren't even present yet.
It was brought to my attention that Lucky Palmer designed this prototype and that John Carmack presented the device at E3 2012 as shown here. The more you know.
Lucky Palmer designed this, not Carmack
@@toosmooth6124 I just googled it and you seem to be right. That's confusing because the articles I read back then didn't mention him.
@@ifrit35 Not sure why. Ive been following VR since Lucky Palmer first showed his prototype, I knew it was the future of gaming and waited a long time to finally get into VR.
Totally agree.. the interviewer sounds like a guy who buys technology because it's trendy or hip..i.e. Google Glass.. He has no flippin' clue what Carmack is talking about. You can really see John's passion for what he does..
Nobody had a clue what John was talking about back then.
If i listen to John Carmack 5 mins, i get motivated to code on my side project for another 1 hour. no kidding.
My peas tasted a little odd at dinner, so I took them apart and found a few odd things in there. So I decided to speak to the farm that grew them and got them to change the way they grew them, which instantly made them taste better. Then I decided to invent my own pea and now it tastes good
this rocket science does alot of tech demos. i can respect him as a technical specialist.
I liked how he mentioned in a couple of years have the device be untethered with a couple of cameras on front. You see the real world (likely arenas that are also mapped in the computer) and whatever gets rendered over the image. Walk around town, with useful rendered info at your beck and call.
"Where this will go in maybe a couple years is instead of being tethered to a PC you build it off of mobile phone hardware-- you know, an iPhone 5 or whatever with optics on there integrated with all of this so no teth- no wires, use the cameras for absolute optical position reckoning...and then you could literally walk around." - Carmack, June 5, 2012.
June 21, 2019, Oculus Quest releases to the public.
Although that is just common sense for anyone who has been around for the last 20 years. Everything moves towards mobile chips because it uses less power and is far more portable. It was inevitable.
What a beautiful supplement to "The history of the future" book, it's crazy we can read about those pivotal moments and actually watch how they happened. Thank you for the video!
9:20 lol this guy's casual as all fuck.
I thank palmer luckey and this man for making it possible to watch this video on my DK2 on a Virtual Desktop floating in space!!
Jeez, if this guy keeps talking, he might discover the meaning of life. Anyways, very smart, very articulate and very down-to-earth kind of guy. We need people like this in every field.
Here you, 10 years later: ua-cam.com/video/I845O57ZSy4/v-deo.html
i cant get over how he literally predicted oculus quest and the direction vr is going, what an incredible man
Pretty much everything he wanted to do with this technology has happened, I'm sat here with my Quest 2 realising just how far VR has come in the past 10 years, it's insane.
@@djchristian82 I often play 3-4 hours sessions and won't get any kind of headache.
The technology is far from perfect, but it has done huge steps forward the right direction
@@djchristian82 You're just a weak man.
There is more wisdom here than most degrees can teach. The fringes of tech. I can listen to him all day and still find something to take from it.
12:32 Ah! Was that a small 'mmm' I heard?
that's John Carmack for you ;)
I was waiting for it, I think he tries his best to get rid of it but one slipped through the cracks there lol
I would consider it a highlight of my entire life, to be able to sit there 1-on-1 with John Carmack and just listen to him go in-depth about all these amazing concepts and extremely intricate tech jargon - a lot of which is beyond me. To be able to sit next to him with his project on my head, while I show him how much I appreciate Doom 3...words can't even describe how unbelievably grateful I'd be. This man talking to him is an absolute charlatan and uninspired, miserable asshat. What an embarrassment. What an insult.
That guy didn't have a fuckin clue what Carmack was on about.
I'm a fan of this man for about 25 years. I hope he returns to Id Software to make incredible games. He is a genius, a software and coding wizard. He better return to gaming industry.
I don't understand how the Rift had this guy behind it... John freaking Carmack. Years of development with this genius, brilliant product comes out. Then BAM out of nowhere, theres the HTC vive with comparable almost identical performance. I totally don't get how this can happen, I know John Carmack isn't the only computer genius out there, but surely he has something special that should make the Rift superior to the Vive? I just don't seem to see it in any reviews.
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People might buy htc vive because "Facebook" bought oculus. If a game company bought it, then it would be another story. Also, he is probably limited in that company with all of his talent!
that 'BAM, out of nowhere' was because of all the work valve did once they got the rift DK1 formfactor and started playing with R&D. This video really was the start of modern VR as we know it today. If you look back even further, Palmer Luckey was making prototypes in 2009, maybe earlier.
I really support Gear VR and oculus. (Mostly because John carmack also has been working with it.) I love John carmack and his work on this!!! I thought about this yesterday... What a genius. ;) he started to push this out to the public. But also sony that has worked on project morpheus. ;)
I just sometimes wish "facebook" did not buy it, that's all.. I got an Gear VR, but might get a HTV vive in the future because of the controllers and stuff.
And yeah, HTC vive has been playing around with DK1 probably. But Oculus got Gear VR, and that is more portable.
People at Valve are no slouches
These are brilliant videos.
They'll also have historic value.
"Do you want to try again?" - "No, its ok, its ok"
Why god why, do tasteless people get to eat the best food and even record it for us to see them say "no, its okay, lets talk about google glasses". So sad.
Carmack is awesome. he finds words for stuff that bothers me aswell where i cant articulate myself good enough for someone to undersand
"John Carmack, you're a smart man."
Bloody genius is what you are, JC.
He was surprisingly accurate about a lot of what VR has evolved to over the past couple years, especially the mobile VR headsets with no tethers
Yes! On there.
when the only improvement to doom3 the interviewer knows about is "flashlight on the armour" i wanted to scream. carmack is kicking ass, sharing amazing insights and techniques and all the asshat talking to him can say is "flashlight on the armour"
Watching this in 2022 and seeing the oculus rift being a kickstarter and a hobby from the man who created doom is wild. The fact that he new to put his eggs in the proverbial correct basket with vr is so surreal. Now Zuck is trying to get us all into the metaverse lol
Reading this 2022 comment of a 2012 interview in 2023, after John Carmack quit the company that started as his hobby, is even wilder. He left behind the VR product that he always* wanted to make - Oculus/Facebook/Meta Quest 2 @ $299 - but from an organization whose inefficiency frustrated him to no end - Facebook/Meta.
watching this in 2019.. wow Carmack /iddqd
Ancient egyptians pursued transcendence through leaving behind gigantic stone monuments. This guy reaches transcendence through leaving awesome technology in this world which will make kids all over the world happy for generations and generations. What a badass.
I love that Carmack never tries to "dumb down" the terminology for interviewers. He respects their intelligence (even if they/I only have a tenuous understanding of what he's saying, lol).
Believe me he was dumbing it down.
@@red2lucas True. He usually speaks in Machine language.
I thank this guy beyond all else, he is the reason I even returned to playing video games :)
THE PROPHET SPEAKS
8:47 just notice that the guy helping with the headset is tim willits
9:16 "No,no, no I'm good, I almost shat my pants..."
I could listen to this man talk for hours
And he talks exactly like he looks
John Carmack always seems so enthusiastic about sharing his knowledge of technology and specifics with others. I love it.
how is this guy green lighted to interview John. dude took goggles off after 2 seconds like he was disgusted. like "nah im good." cant even handle a little VR. guys not even a real gamer.
"I don't know if I wanna play games with a thing on my face." :)
DOOM 4 THANKS YOU
I love how excited he gets.
God of pc gaming.
The optics on the Rift are focused to infinity, meaning that far sighted people will not have any trouble at all. Near sighted people might have some trouble, but only on the developer model. This isn't going to be an issue on the consumer model as they have said repeatedly that adjustable focus will definitely be a feature.
Imagine the companies out there, investing years and millions in developing in this VR technology and then comes John Carmack, starts a new hobby out of boredom and puts all their work to shame
A Texas legend He is
As an atheist, Carmack is still something i can worship :)
At least Carmack is real, and he does things that people can benefit from, unlike any god.
One of the true GOATs in video games. He is massively under appreciated!
I'm sure it was a tough choice but I'm really happy they went with the interviewer who had no understanding of the innovation he was slouching next to and asked near-insulting questions to an industry legend. Can we get more of this guy? I love the Peter Molyneux's dipshit cousin look he's going for.
When you hear a genius speak. Most may not understand a word. But to those who do, they become immediately entranced.
No idea what he is talking about
Virtual reality
I honestly love that he showed up there with his kit literally held together with duct tape
neeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrdd
atleast you should be happy that they made video games possible.....
TwilightVomit lol Look at your uploads bud.
what's wrong with my uploads?
TwilightVomit Can you really call someone a nerd when you yourself have a channel that promotes gaming?
Nick Hen. i dont play vidio games they're for nERds
John Carmack is a GENIUS! A LEGEND!! Long live Mr. Carmack!!
You know, it irks me when people say John Carmack is a robot or alien. He's just a dude. He's not a super savant, he's pretty grounded. My brother and I used to work at a cafe in Dallas and he would pop by with his family. He's just a dude and creative in a right brained organized way. ♥
Love hearing John Carmack talking about tech...
The guy is a god among insects.
Well, he forgot to implement absolute positional tracking with the camera in Gear VR. It was cool that he talks about Note 5 and better resolution screen as we move ahead in the future. This man knows what he's talking about and is seeing into the future.
john carmack is so awesome not only is he the grandaddy of fps but he is a fan of lighting based engines in games and VR
Oh I forgot to put you in my, I mean God mode.
Ok I've been through the Id Software documentary first and then looked at this video. This guy is a complete genius! Oculus Rift is the next best thing (well in 5years from now manybe but still this guy is pushing and pushing againg the limit of technology and he's been doing it for more than 20 years now!) Huge hand up!
John Carmack is a genius!!