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John Carmack Facebook Connect 2021 Keynote

UploadVR · 152.4K views · 2021-10-28 · 1:01:32

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John Carmack's keynote at Facebook Connect 2021, where he speaks candidly about VR, Quest, and Meta's metaverse plans. He pushes back on hype and discusses retention and latency.

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Commenters praise it as clear, honest thinking from Carmack and recommend it to technical people interested in VR and the metaverse.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2021–2022

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RealityVoid · 2021-10 · Strong recommendation

The Index is great, but it will lose in the end because of 3 reasons: 1) much cheaper price 2) portability 3) seamless onboarding experience I love my index but there is no way that it can currently beat oculus because of these things. Also, Oculus is well aware of these features. At least Carmack is. The highlight of connect for me was the Carmack keynote. I suggest all techies watch it: [VIDEO]

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hotwire · 2021-10 · Strong recommendation

Here's his actual keynote speech: [VIDEO] As always, John is a master of communication and clear thought.

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FrostKiwi · 2022-10 · Recommendation

I recommend watching last year's speech by Carmack. It gives a little perspective as to why this was targeted to be a virtual session. He is not a fan of how Meta pushes the Metaverse, "Money is flowing and enormous wheels in the company apparatus are turning" and he wants to salvage that financial energy to push technology in some meaningful way. (Pushing down audio latency on the Quest 2 was such a talking point). This shows what Meta's tech is capable of, mask off, no per-rendered CG advert and I think that's a good thing. Besides that, afaik he is largely detached from that project now and only does once a week consulting, with the main focus being his pursuit of AGI. Doesn't change of course how embarrassingly bad Meta's money invested vs results achieved are. edit: Fount the spot I referenced. [VIDEO] at 15:10 onward

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