Interviews with nearly two dozen VR studios on shipping games on Quest, Meta's increased focus on Horizon Worlds, concerns over declining game sales, and more
With concerns about declining sales and discoverability, UploadVR spoke with nearly two dozen VR studios to discuss the state of VR development for Quest. Bluesky: @kentbye.com , @jamesoloughlin , @ja...
Q&A with former Oculus CTO John Carmack about his AGI startup Keen, how to “solve” AGI, how AGI could impact the economy, AI companies' “groupthink”, and more
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Meta Executive Advisor and former Oculus CTO John Carmack leaves the company after more than eight years, saying Meta is operating at “half the effectiveness”
over *years* of effort — to produce little more than... ...legless 1992 quality avatars... viewed through a size 16 boot strapped to your face... https://twitter.com/... Casilli / @antoniocasilli : Me...
Meta adviser and ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack leaves the company after more than eight years, saying Meta is operating at “half the effectiveness”
John Carmack, who was chief technology officer of Oculus, which Meta bought, is departing the company.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM's System/360 and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, died last week at 91
Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago. Steve Lohr / @stevelohr : Remembering Fred Brooks. fro...
Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”
Parmy Olson of Bloomberg was not impressed with Meta's announcements at Connect 2022: James Troughton / TheGamer : Meta's Virtual Leg Update Was Actually Motion Capture Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Mark Z...
Meta adviser and ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack expresses heavy skepticism at pushing for avatar fidelity, focusing on the Quest Pro to drive VR adoption, and more
Keen Technologies, an artificial general intelligence startup from ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack, raised $20M led by ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross
TechCrunch :
Keen Technologies, an artificial general intelligence startup from ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack, raised $20M led by ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross
TechCrunch :
Facebook's metaverse is designed to solve several problems: an aging userbase, dependence on Google and Apple, regulatory risk, and reputational damage
it's about holding a mirror to our own broken, shared world. @Facebook's promised metaverse is about distracting us from the world it's helped break.”-@ethanz https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Joanna S...