Creator of Minecraft Develops Experimental VR Project (roadtovr.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Despite his on-again off-again relationship with VR headset maker Oculus, the creator of Minecraft, Markus "Notch" Persson, has developed an experimental virtual reality project that leverages WebVR technology to run directly within a browser using a Rift DK2 headset. Notch contributed $10,000 to Oculus' 2012 Kickstarter, and even traveled from Europe to visit the company in its early days. After Facebook's $2 billion acquisition of Oculus in 2014, his enthusiasm dwindled, saying "I definitely want to be a part of VR, but I will not work with Facebook." One month before selling his own company to Microsoft for a similar sum, he said he was "officially over being upset about Facebook buying Oculus."

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Notch is abhorrent

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Notch is a weasel.

I get selling to Microsoft. Fair do's. But the idealistic bullshit he spouted just before the sail were just weasel words. The type you hear from real estate developers when there are trying to manipulate a large scale deal by putting grannys on the street.

Zachary Barth made infinimer, of which Notch took the unencrypted source code and made Minecraft.

Notch Persson gave nothing back. He shit all over the Indie scene, having made himself thie authoratitve voice in indy culture.

He is scum of this earth.