A pioneer in the video games industry and in game development, John Carmack, is now leaving Meta. He said that his departure is the beginning of “the end of [his] decade in VR.”
Carmack had held the role of consulting CTO for Meta’s VR projects until his departure. He had critical comments regarding Meta in his exit statement, which Carmack posted publicly after it was leaked to the press.
“We have a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but we constantly self-sabotage and squander effort. There is no way to sugar coat this; I think our organization is operating at half the effectiveness that would make me happy,” he wrote on Facebook.
Carmack continued, saying, “It has been a struggle for me. I have a voice at the highest levels here, so it feels like I should be able to move things, but I’m evidently not persuasive enough.
“A good fraction of the things I complain about eventually turn my way after a year or two passes and evidence piles up, but I have never been able to kill stupid things before they cause damage, or set a direction and have a team actually stick to it. I think my influence at the margins has been positive, but it has never been a prime mover.”
Oculus, which is now part of Meta, was founded back in 2012 by controversial developer Palmer Luckey. Carmack had joined in 2013.
Carmack made a name for himself developing titles like Doom and Quake. He will now go on to work on his AI startup, Keen Technologies.
He concluded his post, writing: “Enough complaining. I wearied of the fight and have my own startup to run, but the fight is still winnable.”
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