“I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming – the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and internet play, game mods, and so on. Duct taping a strap and hot gluing sensors onto Palmer’s early prototype Rift and writing the code to drive it ranks right up there. Now is a special time. I believe that VR will have a huge impact in the coming years, but everyone working today is a pioneer. The paradigms that everyone will take for granted in the future are being figured out today; probably by people reading this message. It’s certainly not there yet. There is a lot more work to do, and there are problems we don’t even know about that will need to be solved, but I am eager to work on them. It’s going to be awesome!”
Carmack is a co-founder of id Software, has worked on Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, and heads Armadillo Aerospace. Carmack is slated to work at the Oculus Dallas location that is opening soon.
As far as we are aware, Carmack will still maintain his position and role with id Software as well.
(via Oculus)