John Carmack Keynote - Quakecon 2013

[@invisibleaznDJ]

John Carmack is the best at explaining technology.

[@ComeLeVent]

this man is endlesslessly fascinating to listen to. He could go on forever. I can tell that's real passion talking there, he really loves what he does

[@sweeneezy]

Goddamn do I love this guy. He's so interesting and happy to just be there.

[@jjforcebreaker]

Hail to the King.

[@pritch2002]

34:10 2013 - Carmack predicts physical ray traced rendering - will be great - won't change the world. 2019 - we have physical ray traced rendering - it's great - hasn't changed the world.

[@tophan5146]

He also talked about the cloud gaming that is coming in the next generation - 2019 and we have Google Stadia

[@Willwantstobeawesome]

@@tophan5146 Nvidia had the beta for their service back in 2013 (the year of this talk)

[@Willwantstobeawesome]

The first properly ray-traced movie (Monsters University) was the same year as this talk. I was going to say the short time span was still amazing (more so than the vague "eventually") but 6 years is the same as the period between Doom and Quake III Arena

[@RichoRosai]

Once they develop rulers and pencils small enough to trace more rays, shit's gonna be inSANE

[@smile4cs]

he also talked about consoles launching without disk drive years before it happened

[@piyh3962]

Coming back 6 years later he was spot on about raytracing, the Ouya failing, the Kinect failing and the evolution to Xbox One X/PS4 Pro, AR being slow out of the gate compared to VR.

[@PSspecialist]

"I'm still not sold on Kinect" When a genius like Carmack can't see potential in your product you know it's fucked.

[@bud389]

John Carmack also said that the future of game technology was in "shadows" and "lighting" (Doom 3). Look where that went.

[@PSspecialist]

***** Well, just because it wasn't implemented correctly in that particular game, it doesn't mean what he said was wrong. Look at what a hard-on people get about lighting now and all the new tech demos for engines that come out demonstrate mostly light and shadow effects.

[@nexus2574]

+bud389 I actually love Doom 3

[@Lofote]

Carmack is a tech genius, not a game genius.

[@eclipsegst9419]

@@bud389 Hey i'm from the future and he was right. It just took awhile to kick in.

[@co.rin.thi.a]

My uncle!

[@Archvile1]

+Corinthia Carmack wow! john carmack is one of the smartest man i know. have been fan of him since 90's

[@pheeson]

i can sit down and listen to this man talking for days

[@GamersForTruth]

Another thing we need for audio. Is to have more than one audio source. And what I mean is that when you play Co-Op. You are still sharing the same two speakers. So if you hear something on the left. The other person will hear something on the left as well. But only one of you has something actually making noise on the left. So you turn looking for something. You find it. The other person turns to the left. And see's nothing. And get's killed from behind. Thumbs up if you agree.

[@HavocGamingChannel]

Carmack is always in Godmode

[@liftedview]

His brain runs at 13.37Ghz with hyper-threading turned on My brain just had a BSOD trying to keep up with his. Lol

[@liftedview]

yea but what i'm saying is you can tell he probably has multiple threads of thought in his head at any time. A programmers brain works different than the average person, You can see hes using both hemispheres of the brain

[@liftedview]

Capeau Last time you checked? Have you done any kind of research, mr. know-it-all? Are you a brain expert? "Everyone's brain worked the same way" Wow that is the dumbest, most ignorant comment i've heard in 2014 so far. PS: I'm glad my mind works different from yours because you sound really full of yourself Also, have you never heard of Daniel Tammet?? OBVIOUSLY NOT. Look him up, mr.smartass. Now you have scientific PROOF that not everyone's brain functions the same. Also look up left handed people and how their brain works different from most people. ALSO look up autism and how autistic brain works different from most people. Look up chemical imbalance, a hypothesis that explaims mental illness. A mentally ill persons brain works DIFFERENT from most people. Look up neuroplasticity and the fact that the brain CHANGES throughout life. Also look up genetic variation and the FACT THAT WE ARE GENETICALLY UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER. GET IT NOW???????????????????????? ....see what you made me do? waste all my valuable time - just to school some dummy online... Happy now? Even gave you a little rhyme at the end :)

[@liftedview]

Seriously I would really love to know what research you have done to make this INCREDIBLE comment: "Nope, last time i checked everyone's brain worked the same way..." Seriously you can't say DUMB SHIT like this without backing it up with facts. Sorry to insult you but you sound like the worst kind of person to me. The kind that pretends to know everything but is really just a dummy who likes to talk

[@liftedview]

Capeau lol why are you going off on some other tangent? what has that to do with anything? I politely pointed out to you that you are not backing up your INCREDIBLE statements with FACTS. Please get back to me when u have some relevant information. Otherwise, we are done here

[@liftedview]

Oh and just to remind you: you're the one who came out like a douche and shit on my comment without ANY relevant information to back up your wacky claims ("last time I checked...") Maybe YOU should go outside and try to get a sense of the real world and learn how to communicate

[@bobenchorben]

Thank you, IGN. Always happy to hear smart stuff.

[@saiki9659]

First time watching a John Carmack keynote. Super glad I did!!!

[@Slipvayne1908]

what an intelligent man. i had no intention of watching this for 2 hours

[@picklesnorf101]

He also builds Rockets and self driving cars. The man is an expert in multiple fields.

[@acko741]

this is just beautiful.

[@TheYamsinacan]

THANK YOU MR. CARMACK! Finally, someone who is also mad that next gen isn't making 60 FPS the new 30 FPS.

[@ByronSaavedraS]

29:34 my personal opinion about coment (if i understand english, i dont speak english well): -Playing 5 minutes of the last of us, it is like play a trailer not for the graphics itself, its about the cam views and characters development (the eviorement it is a character for this developers), and see how a good director can make a great game experience not only with graphics. But.. Im agree, there are few game than can do this, and that is a good job for developers.

[@sslaxx]

Not happening this year, unfortunately. Or ever again. Thanks, Zenimax, for nothing.

[@isitluk]

This guy is a freaking beast, The book Masters of Doom is amazing! INSPIRING DUDE!!

[@DelbertStinkfester]

This was an absolutely awesome video of a guy who changed gaming forever.

[@eqwanox]

and three months later he left id

[@Maggai]

Very enjoyable to listen to him, he's a true inspiration.

[@JulioCesar-zk7eb]

Even though he didn't say anything about it, we already know that they have all teams focused on Doom 4. So that game is their priority now.

[@futuredirector999]

I may not understand everything he says, but I still find this fascinating.

[@roger767]

damn this guy can talk, great insight in the consoles and gaming in general, love it!

[@libertysomething]

I don't know what fuck he's talking about! But I like it!

[@charliephayer123]

I watch his keynote every year and it reminds me I am not a smart man.

[@darkdevil905]

yeah i'm still waiting too !!

[@RedBlueGemini]

He said it was an amazing speech.

[@nebulabryan6435]

1:49:49 John Carmack takes his first drink of water from talking consecutively for basically 2 hrs. How does he do it?!

[@koslegoman]

Amazing man to listen to!

[@LegionZer0games]

Oh I forgot to say he's is also the reason we have 3D games, OpenGL, and the reason games use graphics cards now.

[@newtuberification]

I can hear it just fine.

[@JawzPause]

Driveclub, infamous: Second Son, Knack, The Order 1886, Killzone Shadow Fall are just some of the exclusives for PS4. If you can count, that is more than 2 games.

[@DigitalContentNetwork]

While listening to John Carmack, a kind of superhero of his own, I just thought about all those workers putting high tech quads into consoles, the big apparatus to make all this entertainment pay off. When I think about such a billion dollar market what is actually the real cost of all this high end technique ? Which are the resources that where minimized by this fast growing development ? What will be its real impact in consuming visual entertainment in the future at least the next ten years ?

[@Bahcorp]

I hope companies listen to John Carmack and make things better.

[@VikingPoodle]

Hell yeah! When The Animal started playing I liked John even more. That was awesome haha

[@haggisflightware]

Hands up if you understand what he meant with time warping - and he's actually the most brilliant guy on the planet for suggesting it. I felt like such an idiot when what he proposed was so simple and obvious yet the world hadn't figured it out.

[@iLikeTheUDK]

John Carmac sure knows what he's saying on there.

[@LegionZer0games]

THE CLOUD, they have already said you'll get unlimited storage for games and apps if you ever fill up your HDD. And have you been under a rock you no longer have to install games to your HDD, No 24 hour check-in, no region lock, you don't have to have the Kinect on, you can mod games if the developer let you, every system is a dev kit, you can give\trade\sale\and use used games. Hell what can't you do on an XB1

[@mattcorbett9015]

John Carmack is a genius. All of id software are. They pretty much created the FPS. With out these guys none of it would have been possible.

[@JarJarBinks4ever]

He is IMMORTAL !

[@koslegoman]

Great Keynote!

[@Offspringfan64]

THE NOTORIOUS JOHN CARMACK.

[@GamersForTruth]

What I'm saying is that when playing Co-Op. We need to have the system have more than one way of getting sound delivered. Just like on PC. You can have onboard sound, sound card, and some usb headset's have a built in sound card. And you can choose which device to use to deliver you sound. We need games that can use more than one. Possibly for console's to allow usb headset's. And when you use them. The second player will be only using his device to deliver sound. And not sharing the onboard.

[@dlakodlak]

Have you really seen anything on this system with comparable geometry and texture freedom? Because that was the focus of the tech. Anything can have any shape and can be painted in any way and you can see result of it everywhere in the game. The drawbacks are texture data streaming limitations (popping textures) and the fact that all stuff in the scene has the same resolution so close-up views suffer from relative low-res textures.

[@brianxbang]

It's actually just fine. Turn up the audio on the KZbin player. Makes a substantial difference.

[@NomadOverNormal]

at what part does he speak about the two consoles being the same?

[@agreatflood2121]

If Id were to make a Mantle version of Rage, I am confident it would solve the performance issues with Mega Textures.

[@ocelot113]

Personally, I think Kinect will be relatively niche until brainwave controllers are common place. Seems how it may take a while to go from distinguishing a button click to full motion on a brainwave controller, the Kinect could serve as a competent substitute to the Brainwaves being able to que a "jump", "shoot", or "select" function. Ultimately controllers that work through a direct feed to your brain is the ultimate goal for hands free.

[@LegionZer0games]

"For your information Steam software has offline mode, so if you don't have an internet connection at the moment or it goes down, u can still play your games" You do know it not always offline mode, you do need to check in time from time. If I remember right its like 3 days(a week in some cases).. And developer's have the option to still put DRM on PS4 if they want. As for cheaper we would have to see, their talking about making the price $399.99. But you do get other thing for that $100.00.

[@DeanGl]

Takes a while for the other resolutions to load. Give it time.

[@futuredirector999]

yes it is

[@XxSonicSnipzxX]

Certified genius

[@FLHilde]

Because is a very intelligent person, and practically is the father of FPS genre

[@steveozone4910]

Legend in the room

[@luukkey]

Apparently myself and the other 1,503 people and more that will be watching this.

[@rust347]

Awesome

[@1SWINZ1]

LMAO at all the people misinterpreting what hes saying. When he says ''essentially the same'', he means in architecture, not power. We all know 100% that the PS4 has an absolute minimum of a 50% power advantage in the three key areas- CPU, GPU and RAM. But as a game developer, the two similar architecture's are going to make his job easier and thats what he saying.

[@akkonburike]

Its interesting to know that Carmack doesnt get this... Carmack hinted that Apple's mouse needed MORE mouse buttons... but the ONE button mouse is the "secret" ingredient that made the Macintosh's magic!!!

[@WanyeEast]

In Carmack we trust.

[@FatmasterKY3]

So much respect

[@Deleted_IQ]

thats perfect for computers and tech in general to work at full speed

[@ChrisLT]

"Turned on stream long enough to hear Carmack say games should run at 60, said 'fuck yeah they should,' turned it off." - Jeff Gerstmann (though I was crazy enough to sit through the whole fascinating thing)

[@nebulabryan6435]

You do realize what you're trying saying right? Basically you desire Speakers that can "theoretically speaking" Have the vibrations (which makes sound) move towards the left, intertwine themselves with the right so you're capable of hearing equally from both sides no matter where you are is improbable at this time partially because we haven't really confine our self with this technological process to find a solution to this problem. The alternative solution, simply put headphones.

[@1SWINZ1]

Sony is currently making 300GB optical discs, they plan to have them finished by 2015. This is a clear indication that PS5 will have these 300GB discs, witch means ''digital-only'' is still a LONG way off because we'd need a 100TB harddrive with every console to fit games of that size on there.

[@Vakda]

Quake, The Quake Engine, Doom, First Person Shooters.... That's why.

[@JackhammerBrad]

this guy is a beast!

[@kurieb]

Download speeds of gigabytes per second is not needed for streaming game. The issue isn't that the game would require so much as it is the fact that ISP's refuse to update their network due to cost compared to how much they would actually make from giving a better service.

[@HerbieChuckNorris]

yeah he talks about it on twitter

[@TheGoodContent37]

He will not die. They won't let him.

[@gamevalor]

About Privacy: when the state or a company violates people's privacy rights if they spy on you without your consent is a serious offense. About Digital Games: yes there will be all-digital games, but the consumer must still OWN the game and be able to RESELL that product he or she bought.

[@1SWINZ1]

Well, using a calculator, i've just added everything up, CPU(1.6 as you say), GPU(800mhz) and RAM(800mhz apparently, im still looking for confirmation) and this comes to alot higher than 2.75ghz. And when you take into account the 18 compute units on the GPU and the 8 cores on the CPU, then it starts to get a hell of alot higher.

[@ChrisLT]

Nice, looking forward to this. And feeling like an idiot afterwards.

[@1SWINZ1]

Search Google news for ''Sony 300GB optical discs'' and it should come up, its quite recent news. If i remember correctly, they've partnered with Panasoic to do it, don't quote me on it but im 90% sure it was Panasonic.

[@Spacemanchuck]

John Carmack does what he wants! He probably does that shit on the side btw. He does launch design rockets for his space company Armadillo Space. So there's that.

[@BotGeorge]

my mother had a old saying she told me " If you don't have anything nice to say then STFU"

[@acegears117]

the legend speaks!

[@Sunedosa]

Depends on exclusives aswell, i want them both tbh.

[@iLikeTheUDK]

John Carmack sure knows what he's saynf on there.

[@T0asty-]

It also works for 720p! :D

[@tehcanuck16]

Good talk.

[@LegionZer0games]

Don't forget 3D graphics and a reason to use a GPU(thanks to quake) gamers should thank this man and his company for the vast improvement on our loved games.

[@RedBlueGemini]

That it was awesome even though he did not see.

[@michiganjack1337]

..and we keep watching hoping that some of his genius rubs off on us by osmosis. I really do look forward to these every year. I really need to go to Quakecon; BYOC.

[@THETOASTYTOASTEROMEGA]

holy shit steve vai's the animal was used for john carmacks introduction song:DD

[@AllthingsYagami]

This was a live stream event yesterday, he maybe have watched it there, i know i did.

[@endlessein]

He seems like a nice guy.

[@TheMaazster]

Ps4's CPU frequency will be at 1.6 as well 2.75 is the ram

[@Blackrazor_Daystar]

True Digital Artist

[@killerkuriboh0528]

yea saw like a couple articles already thanks, and yea your probably right digital only is a while off

[@mdschannel7180]

Can you confirm that DX11.2 will be on PS4? After all, DirectX is a microsoft made technology which has been Windows and Xbox exclusive for quite some time now..

[@Plexy347]

According to me and 16 other people, my argument isn't invalid.

[@That0Homeless0Guy]

As a game developer myself I found that all those issues could be fixed with driver patches and a little bit of tech know how with rage. These are mainly early DX11 issues with some/most cards.

[@paulhamberg2009]

Yeah, the audio is really low on this video.

[@Wayne-B]

Almost 3 hours damn, I got to find some time.

[@SimonHill94]

Fair enough, I always thought he was the lead game developer or something. That said, he still is responsible for perfecting the genre.

[@RedBlueGemini]

Vid has been out 15 minutes.