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E3 2012: John Carmack Interview

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  • Presented by John Carmack, co-founder of id Software

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John Carmack discusses his early virtual reality headset prototype, focusing on latency, optics, depth perception, and focus challenges.

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 And our Facebook page! on.fb.me/hcyG1R And Twitter! bit.ly/9SzULe And Twitch! bit.ly/shzAI2

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Arjunaon Hacker News • Recommends

On “John Carmack is making a virtual reality headset”

Nice interview with John demoing and discussing his work: "So the way this has gone, is, I decided to treat myself after Rage on there, I bought a, you know, a head mount for $1,500 or so. It's a little cottage industry, there's a few places that do these things with integration, and... it sucked. It was really bad. It was everything that I expected it to be, that it, it didn't look like there had been any progress in 20 years, since... or 15 years since I had looked at these things last. But, when I got that, then, I started taking it apart, both literally and figuratively, to go ahead and see what are all of the aspects on here, on the sensing side, where, when I wrote my own test software…
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Arjunaon Hacker News • Recommends

On “John Carmack is making a virtual reality headset”

Thanks for the info. You will definitely be interested in this part of John's interview, where he discusses depth and how he approached the problem. It starts at around 9:20 and ends at around 11:25: link to this video
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Arjunaon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Id Software founder John Carmack resigns”

…with not only his passion and skill, but his ability to work with graphics hardware manufacturers and driver developers to effect change and garner the necessary support and backing, expect to see vibrant, compelling developments in this field. In case you missed it, check this video out of John discussing some of his VR work. It is from E3 2012: link to this video That momentary sinking feeling has faded away now... great things are ahead!…
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jonmrodriguezon Hacker News • Mentions

On “John Carmack is making a virtual reality headset”

Oh wait John does talk about focus! link to this video He seems to have not heard of the latest Volumetric 3D display technology: "time-multiplexing": link (the bottommost diagram, labeled "Switchable lens volumetric display.", made practical in 2008. The diagram labeled "Illustration of 3 mirrors display" is a bulkier 2004 technology.)
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Arjunaon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: Has cloud and mobile already happened? What's next?”

…f John Carmack 4 involved, with not only his passion and skill, but his ability to work with graphics hardware manufacturers and driver developers to effect change and garner the necessary support and backing, expect to see vibrant, compelling developments in this field. Here is a video of John discussing some of his VR work. It is from E3 2012: link to this video 2. Look to see more games like Ingress 5 as things start to move toward AR. 3. I realize that this may be an extreme, perhaps well-into-the-future example, but check out this short film entitled, Sight . It is not difficult to imagine that this is where we are heading with technology like Google Glass (e.g., Note in the film the gamificat…
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Arjunaon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Wrong and Right Reasons To Be Upset About Oculus – with Carmack response”

Carmack had this to say earlier, in a 3-part Tweet: "Everyone has had some time to digest the FB deal now. I think it is going to be positive, but clearly many disagree. Much of the ranting has been emotional or tribal, but I am interested in reading coherent viewpoints about objective outcomes. What are the hazards? What should be done to guard against them? What are the tests for failure? Blog and I'll read." Also, this: "I would expect Facebook to not exert any overt control over Oculus unless Oculus fumbles badly a few times, at which point they SHOULD." ~~~~ My personal take: At the end of the day, it takes more than vision and hard work to drive a dream into existence... it takes inves…
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tapoxion Hacker News • Mentions

On “Palmer Luckey: “The Apple headset is so good.””

He was designing it on his own and did a good enough job to get Carmack interested and promoting it through forum interactions: link to this video I'm not sure what this Valve demo refers to.
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