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Michael Abrash Joins Oculus, Calls Facebook 'Final Piece of the Puzzle'
trawg writes: "Programming legend Michael Abrash has announced that he has joined the Oculus team to work on the Rift VR headset as Chief Scientist, and will be once again working with John Carmack to bring VR to life. His post covers a lot of ground, including the history of his quest for VR, and ends with his explanation of why he thinks the Facebook acquisition is ultimately a good thing — they have the engineering, resources and long-term commitment 'to solve the hard problems of VR.'"
Abrash has long maintained a blog about VR tech — it's worth reading if the subject matter interests you.
Exactly.
Legend he is not.
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Today's 18-year old shiftless potheads have no idea who made what they take for granted.
All great advances are built upon other people's work, and the dope-addled idiots like "CanHasDIY" can only think far enough to make it into a topical joke.
No, please, tell us what you really think, Captain Assumption.
FWIW, we've all heard the "standing on the shoulders of giants" meme, but not all of us consider video game technology as the be-all-end-all of human accomplishment. Twat.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
He's well known if you're into the low-level machinery of game graphics.
I presume, then, that the submitter's error was in assuming every person reading Slashdot is "into" game graphics enough to know who the "legends" are.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Turn in your geek card.
In addition to what other people have already said, his columns on graphics in the old dead-tree version of DDJ were a must-read.
For people into that sort of thing.
Which is but a select subset of a subset of the Slashdot crowd.
Get over yourself... "turn in your geek card" indeed...
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
A few weeks ago I was talking to a high school age son of a friend. The kid studies music in school but still had no idea who Bob Dylan was.
This isn't quite that bad but it's close.
Except I'm not a fucking programmer, and especially not a game programmer.
I'd even go so far to bet that a lot of Slashdot regulars were asking themselves the same question I did: who the hell is this guy, and what makes him "legend?" Valid questions, as the submitter didn't bother to explain nor provide any sort of link that would give readers the opportunity to find out.
Now, if you were to ask me "who is Harley Earl," yea, I'd be pretty embarrassed if I couldn't answer. And, of course, I'd forgive anyone who isn't into automotive design by trade or hobby for not knowing.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Do you know who Bernard Sklar is? Leonard Danilewicz? No? That shows an unfortunate level of ignorance on the origins of digital communications and spread spectrum. Something I can assure you has a much wider scope of applications and industries than graphics programming (not even general processing) for PCs.
I can continue with a long list of other names you'd never heard of but who's work you and everyone else on this forum are using every single day, but it's pointless.
You, on the other hand, can all continue your little ego stroke though for a bit a trivia that people who don't work in a particular industry would never be reasonably expected to know.