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John Carmack's Oculus Connect Keynote Probably Had Samsung Cringing

Posted by timothy on from the now-in-our-day-we-had-leeches-on-both-ears-for-balance dept.

An anonymous reader writes John Carmack, famed keystone developer of 3D networked gaming, has now been working with virtual reality company Oculus for over a year. Much of that time has been spent collaborating with Samsung on the forthcoming Gear VR headset. At his keynote presentation during Oculus Connect, Carmack took to the stage with 90 unscripted minutes of no holds barred discussion of the last 12 months in VR. 'I believe pretty strongly in being very frank and open about flaws and limitations so this is kind of where I go off message a little bit from the standard PR plan and talk very frankly about things,' he said to applause from the audience.

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  1. Click bait headline by An+Ominous+Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Samsung cringing? Because Carmack referenced hardware limitations of the current display technology that anyone who could follow his speech either already knows or could have gleened from reviewing the basic specs? And the display technology is still is (or is equal too) the best available in industrial quantities?

    It's not like he said "Company X's displays are so much better, it's stupid we didn't go with them." That might have induced some cringes. The actual speech? Not so much. It was interesting enough for the technical material, don't try to spoil it with melodramatics.

    1. Re:Click bait headline by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I think you missed a bit of the strategy; the sales guys don't care if something was wrong, as long as the engineers fix it. What they don't want is for THEM to be wrong. The product? Not so much....

  2. Re:Samsung stockholder applause? by Teancum · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With the money Mr. Carmack earned from the sale of Oculus, do you think he cares? He has suggested that he wouldn't mind simply going back to running his spaceship company, so can Samsung give him a good reason to do that?

    This definitely sounds like somebody who doesn't give a damn.