E3 2012: John Carmack Interview
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2025
- Brad sits down with Johnny C to get some info on his VR head-mounted display. If you like this, maybe you'd like to check out our website! bit.ly/bxFRTC
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Seems like Carmark is really easy to interview: ask him one question, then he'll do all the talking for you! Guy is an absolute legend.
Thanks for letting him talk (with little or no interruption) - his technical accuracy and understanding makes for such an awesome piece to listen to.
John Carmack reminds us all that game developers are artists, with passions that run white hot, and drives as great as any portrait artist or cinematographer.
Thanks John for all your effort evangelizing the Rift at a critical point in time for VR.
And now we can play Doom 3 on standalone VR. Thanks John Carmack for making it Open Source
Fucking futurama music
I understood very little of that, but Carmack is absolutely mesmerising to listen to and watch. Such a passionate and knowledgable guy. Glad to see that someone out there realises that 3d and head tracking arent just gimmicks, but the next step for immersion, too.
Music is sooo unnecessary.
"we can't correct this in hardware, but i corrected it in software"
this fucking guy
I am so happy Carmack is still young so that he can keep that mind of his working for many years to come
Same here, even though I don't understand the first thing about engineering and programming. I just love the passion he shows for this kind of thing. Top guy.
Carmack has such an incredible mind. It is half man, half machine.
John is the type of guy that you need in an industry, ANY industry. It's the people that are enthusiastic about what they do, that want to push the boundaries, those are the people that bring innovation. Whether it is something innovative that works or doesn't, for whichever the cause it somebody sooner or later is going to end up improving on it.
That's how we evolve technology!
if i had the chance talking to him id be overwhelmed with the way he is so passionate about innovating i would want to truely marvel the way he is a true genius in the things he does with improving this
"Deeply Fundamentally Cool" Love that :-) I was hooked on VR development ever since this video, fascinating! Fair play to John for sitting in that loud cubicle all day showing people this tech! I would have lost my mind and walked out after 10mins!
I could sit and listen to this guy talk all day!
These guys clearly weren't expecting a thesis from Mr. Carmack, but that's what makes him so amazing. He's awesomely down to earth and still has the creative bug like a genius teenager tinkering with new tech in his room at home.
This is incredible to me, how he can be this knowledgeable in regards to the actual design of a system like this, a genius who can do all the coding and hardware dirty work himself, even though he's the product visionary and executive as well at the same time.
It's actually not music edited into this video. The interview was just catching the music from other booth's inside the Expo
Hard to believe JC is a metalhead. I LOVE HIM!!
carmack is a freaking genius. i'm glad there are people like him around that really can make stuff happen.
Definitely, Carmack is a guy who could fill an hour of lecture quality content in about any interview. It always blows my mind how much he has to say every time someone asks a question.
I love his idiosyncratic head bobbing :)
The music's not edited into the video, it's part of another booth at the expo somewhere next door.
you are, this man is the father of what kind of 3d games we have today. srsly, this man is a genius, he practically invented 3d rendering.
Just put the camera on a tripod, hit record, and come back the next day. Let Carmack talk about whatever he wants 'cause it's fucking amazing.
Such a fantastic man.
You'd think after two decades+ in the induistry John Carmack would be a little less eager, a little more weary, but NOPE. The guy is still so excited and passionate about his work that the words are practically falling out of his mouth. The interviewer couldn't get a word in edgeways.
I get the feeling John could talk about this project for days on end, and his enthusiasm is so infectious that I'd happily listen to him.
cant believe its been 10 years
cant wait till this device is on the market
1080p was the future back then.
i could listen to carmack talk about tech all day.
This interview is pretty good on there. John Carmack is such a paragon on there. Can't wait to see where he goes with this on there. Funny to see that he still says ‘on there’ a lot on there.
Great interviewer. And Carmack is amazing, as always.
I dont understand most of this but I could listen to him talk all day.
?? Did you hear how wide angle the view is in his vr? Search "Ross uses John Carmack's head mounted display" and watch that video. He says he can't see the edges of the screen, which would mean that it covers his peripheral view.
That's kind of what I wanted to say. It's incredible all the stuff he does without a PHD, I don't know that he has a college degree at all (could check wikipedia but I'm too lazy). In a day and age where all through school it is rammed down your throat that college is the only way to go, it's inspiring to see how far you can get by just having passion for something coupled with an incredible capacity to learn.
Incredibly happy that Mr.Carmack is getting involved with VR gaming development. Can't wait to try out Doom 3 with the Oculus Rift.
Great interview!
Also, focusing could be done with eyetracking and moving the optics depending on what you're looking at and it's 'virtual position in space' - this would introduce a whole new slew of problems though - instead of just screens and lenses, you'd have to have motorised lenses, adding weight, possibly latency, noise...
Holy fuck he guesstimated the price of oculus rift to be 600 dollars way back in 2012. Non of that aiming for 300-400 dollar shit nor the 350 ballpark crap.
+Mert9800 Haha amazingly cheap. And yes it is, Carmack spot on.
@@Silpher9 And now we're at Quest 2 - which is an incredibly good headset - for just $299. :)
every day is good to be john carmack.
I can't wait to get one of those kits!
you’re observing what happens when you let someone’s passions run wild and get the heck out of their way
I'm pretty sure he's talking about the way-too-loud music that was added in post.
Ineed! Could listen to him for days!
I always just thought of Carmack as game designer/programmer, but now I see he is really passionate about the whole gaming experience.
Please post a version with the music incurring a mid-range drop in the critical band around 500hz-3K so that I can pretend like I am trying to dance closer and closer to John Carmack but can still talk to him over the kegger music
That was fucking awesome. John Carmack is brilliant.
Just as Shredder was saying: "Idiots! I have to do everything by myself!"
I love Carmack interviews.
on there. What a legend.
God I love John Carmack. The man is a living legend.
Pretty amazing, it looks like he's working out the latency (First time i've seen a VR demo that isn't lagging!), the optics, and the control system (joypad+accelerometers). Seems he wasn't impressed with upcoming gaming tech that he decided to do something about it himself. The guy is a genius that's bored =P
I was with him up until about 8 minutes, and then my brain went all mushy.
I love this type of interview! I can hear the passion and frustration in his voice that he can't get it to work right.
This is what I want to see out of E3, not PR drivel.
O_O 1:30 Is that Futurama in the background? Anyway, RAGE was awesome and I would appreciate a sequel very much.
It's definitely something played on the tubular bells
the guys who tried the rift said head aiming is pretty fast and accurate
but more immersive would be a combo with controllers like the Razer Hydra
Oh my god, I want one for when Half-Life 3 comes out.
it all depends on how we use it. technology itself is never good or bad, it's up to us.
can you make the music a bit louder towards the end? i can still hear john carmack if i try hard.
couple that with gloves that'll allow you to control the hands of any character and a gun with movement controls and this could be an amazing leap into the next gen of gaming.
Like laser quest, for games
I love how Carmack drops "rocket controlled fiber optic gyros" into a sentence like hes talking about the fucking weather.
I'm going to buy a kit for sure. And I have a 3D printer, so maybe I might be able to design some new mounts like he was saying... Probably not, but it'd be great! :-D
I love what he's doing right here: take a technology that has stagnated and that he feels can improve games, and PUSH it forward. Much respect, Mr. Carmack!
Looking at the prototype I can only say one thing.. VFX-1... it's the best comfortable well balanced helmet where it fits perfectly into the vizor...
This combined with a wiimote, so the gun moves independent of your head would be so awesome.
I'd listen to him talking all day if I had time
This is the guy you want working on VR - and he is!
I think it is deeper - he will inspire many great engineers to drop AAA 4k monitor gaming, to work on VR - bring it on!
B-Rad said this was his favourite interview ever
Could you post a version without the guys talking I can't hear the music.
what is the background music that is playing in the 2ndhalf of this video?
imagine using those while playing AMNESIA
i cant wait to try that in the future
I like how the interviewer is holding the microphone to his own mouth while Carmack is talking.
John Carnack is an awesome dude.
Non-music version please!
:O Where the hellballs can I pre-order?!
Isn't this the guy that started a 3d graphics revolution by doing most on the work of the quake engine? :O
The guy is clearly a genius. I seriously wonder how Rage had all the issues it did at launch, given this man's talent.
Was actually referring to the interviewer who stated: "..you (Carmack) still had to hand-build it.."
What's the deal with the fucking churchbell chimes? With that said, I could listen to him talk all day long.
why is there futurama music in the background???
Problem is, that the reporter, jeff?, is holding the microphone to his own mouth, so in order to hear carmack talk, they needed to turn up the volume, but that also turned up the background noise. so they used music to cover it up..... soundengineering 101... bravo gb :P
Congrats to Palmer getting some big names interested in your display
You muppet. Quake? Still has a massive competitive community today. ID Tech 1, 2, 3, 4. Armadillo Aerospace, not to mention the massive amount he's done for open source software as well as his work towards slowly influencing the PC hardware market towards a unified standard. The man is one of the most important people in tech.
I would have preferred it to be longer.
Footage from E3 having background sound leaking in from the convention that is going outside of the camera frame. Dear lord how inconsiderate of them for not shutting down E3 for 17 and a half mins while Carmack spoke with this one online gaming news reporter.
I've seen other people of the mind that Carmack knew Brad didn't understand what he was talking, so he answered his own questions instead essentially. I got the impression he wanted this interview to be what it was for informative purposes.
Note: He's saying "OLEDs", not "O-Lens". That confused me for the first few minutes. It's hard to hear him over THAT DAMN MUSIC.
Doom 4 is rumored to be announced at this year's QuakeCon
I feel like a nerd but, this is the most interesting thing I've seen from E3.
John Carmack should do a filibuster in Congress
?please explain.....
I don't think I've seen an interview with Carmack that actually gave him enough time. He needs a podcast.
As if he went and fixed all the distortion post process. I love JC.
I first read his name on Doom I credits.. long time ago.
Didn't know he looked like Dexter!
Goddammit, if you appreciate the awesomeness of 120hz, why are all IDTech games these days locked at 60?!
Carmack is a genius
I love Carmack
5:56 u can hear guitar solo from "Back to Cali" from Slash playing faintly in the background :D
oh yes, when the photons stream off the O-leds it really grinds my gears too john
It was a very new engine. Rage was the first real test for it. Maybe it will mature.
Music is a bit too loud, though.
agreed, he's the geek in all of us