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Oculus Connect 2: Live Coding Session with John Carmack

Meta VR · 141K views · 2015-11-04 · 1:05:22

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Overview

John Carmack live-codes a simple VR application at Oculus Connect 2 using a Racket-based environment for rapid development and deployment on Gear VR.

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Cited for watching Carmack code fluently and for the fast iteration cycle of Racket-based VR scripting.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2016–2023

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pera · 2017-08 · Strong recommendation

Actually I really like the format of your presentations: just yesterday I watched your live coding session with vrscript ( [VIDEO] ) and it was fantastic because, first, you were showing to your audience how to work with Racket (and some of the features in DrRacket), and second, you build from zero a demo in a very casual, easy going way. I honestly don't think that a standard slide-based presentation would have been better in any way...

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staunch · 2019-05 · Recommendation

He also did a live coding demo showing off this VR scripting concept. Having such a fast iteration cycle is very compelling. Hopefully at least some Javascript version of this will exist, even though this seems like a perfect application for a Lisp. [VIDEO] I wish he did live coding. Jonathan Blow's Twitch channel (naysayer88) is very compelling. Carmack's would be as well.

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khrm · 2016-05 · Recommendation

Checkout the VR script by John Carmack [VIDEO] It's on racket (scheme dialect). There are no language which can make you more efficient. But some languages open your mind. Just read SICP and find out what makes language EPIC. Many big projects are in Php. But surely no one would claim that it makes php "the EPIC" or even great.

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