<story><title>John Carmack’s presentation at Facebook Connect [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXmY26pOE-Y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dougmwne</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d say that is the same as a dead end. Right now this is a very expensive, multi-billion dollar toy with toy demonstrator apps and proof of concept games. It needs to be a game changer and the future of something or the research funding and developer ecosystem are going to dry up. And given the amount that Facebook must be losing on the Quest 2 and the all-in nature of this launch, if this doesn&amp;#x27;t take off now, the runway for Oculus at FB may be over.</text></item><item><author>criddell</author><text>&amp;gt; Time to see for myself if this is the computing future or an evolutionary dead end.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a third possibility - VR is finally here and consumer market is what it is. It&amp;#x27;s not going to take over the world but it isn&amp;#x27;t going away either.</text></item><item><author>dougmwne</author><text>This talk was such a treat. After all the carefuly crafted hype from Zuck and the gang, Carmack threw huge bucket of cold water on everything. I think it&amp;#x27;s just wonderful that he&amp;#x27;s allowed to speak so openly, about the things he&amp;#x27;s proud of, the things he thinks are failures, internal politics, the possibilities for improvement, the real hard physical limits VR is running into, and his growing pessimism for the future of VR. I could really hear it in his talk why he moved on to spend more time on his next passion.&lt;p&gt;Since it sounded to me like the low hanging mobile VR fruit has been picked, I went ahead and pre-ordered my very first HMD afterwards. Time to see for myself if this is the computing future or an evolutionary dead end.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koiz</author><text>&amp;gt;Right now this is a very expensive, multi-billion dollar toy with toy demonstrator apps and proof of concept games.&lt;p&gt;We are far past tech demos and concept games.</text></comment>
<story><title>John Carmack’s presentation at Facebook Connect [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXmY26pOE-Y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dougmwne</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d say that is the same as a dead end. Right now this is a very expensive, multi-billion dollar toy with toy demonstrator apps and proof of concept games. It needs to be a game changer and the future of something or the research funding and developer ecosystem are going to dry up. And given the amount that Facebook must be losing on the Quest 2 and the all-in nature of this launch, if this doesn&amp;#x27;t take off now, the runway for Oculus at FB may be over.</text></item><item><author>criddell</author><text>&amp;gt; Time to see for myself if this is the computing future or an evolutionary dead end.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a third possibility - VR is finally here and consumer market is what it is. It&amp;#x27;s not going to take over the world but it isn&amp;#x27;t going away either.</text></item><item><author>dougmwne</author><text>This talk was such a treat. After all the carefuly crafted hype from Zuck and the gang, Carmack threw huge bucket of cold water on everything. I think it&amp;#x27;s just wonderful that he&amp;#x27;s allowed to speak so openly, about the things he&amp;#x27;s proud of, the things he thinks are failures, internal politics, the possibilities for improvement, the real hard physical limits VR is running into, and his growing pessimism for the future of VR. I could really hear it in his talk why he moved on to spend more time on his next passion.&lt;p&gt;Since it sounded to me like the low hanging mobile VR fruit has been picked, I went ahead and pre-ordered my very first HMD afterwards. Time to see for myself if this is the computing future or an evolutionary dead end.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; It needs to be a game changer and the future of something or the research funding and developer ecosystem are going to dry up.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hate that we live in a world so dominated by network effects, economies of scale, corporate consolidation, and shareholder value that there are fewer and fewer realms where &amp;quot;small success&amp;quot; still exists.</text></comment>