Oculus Connect 4 | Day 2 Keynote: Carmack Unscripted

Watch John Carmack, Oculus CTO, talk about the state of mobile VR and more!

[@HankLeukart]

I want to give John Carmack his own Netflix talk show series called A Genius Talks About... Each 4-hour episode would simply be Carmack talking about a different, fascinating topic, which he would do without notes, without taking a break or drinking water, in stunning depth, better than anyone else ever could. And he would never age.

[@antoniodevcodes]

I honestly think this would be a success. Or he could start a podcast too.

[@VRShow]

What amazes me about Carmack most is his ability to stand in front of a group of people and without a beverage break or a bio break stream on verbally for 2 to 5 hours...he barely seems to breath, consult his notes...hes like a 24 Core Presenter...amazing stuff :)

[@ShishakliAus]

Using only the power of autism!

[@peterhenry2240]

lmfao that reply got me.

[@meenakamdar1197]

That comes from his long years of training as a sole lead programmer. The ability to focus without a break

[@imperialwizardry]

reminds me of Glen Greenwald

[@ColeVanD]

I just noticed this, then looked at the comment section :P

[@Jayden933]

I'm a simple man. I see John Carmack give a speech, I watch it.

[@_zproxy]

his stuff is the best

[@Jdpoz]

Couldn't agree more. :)

[@aryaaayra]

I'd pay a monthly sub just to hear him talk.

[@Skarredghost]

And I also like and share it

[@vrerse4772]

When you watch carmack, suddenly even the video has 60 fps!

[@user-by9fr7oq5w]

haha

[@FREEZERQC]

XD loll

[@michaelmaxime2017]

You kids have no idea how amazing the phrase "I'm going to Wal-Mart to pick up a VR headset." is.

[@jeffjones719]

huh?

[@miniman3112]

The talks of Carmack are my favorite bit of every connect event by a long shot! I'm so, so glad that he is allowed to remain this honest and critical. Marketing? Here's what we're doing wrong! Thinking about becoming a developer? You're gonna have a hard time! The content we have? Here is what I hate about the current state of things! A new piece of hardware that was announced just one day ago? Here's everything you need to know about the components, this is better, this is worse! Oh, and we don't expect to beat GearVR! All the while still being the entity that convinces me about the successful future of VR the most. Same message as every year: He should have as much talking time as possible! Just rent a smaller hall and let him talk in it until he falls over from exhaustion if he wants to :D

[@FreekHoekstra]

so true, Marketing always thinks about never saying something bad, forgetting that people that already know you're product know these bad things and know that you're lying to them. being honest to your customers is the most important thing to foster loyalty.

[@MadMaxBLD]

14 minutes in, John says that people are surprised about him championing mobile VR considering how much credit he's taken for developing "high-end" stuff on PC. I disagree with these people; it is VERY typical of John Carmack to take limited hardware and make "magical" software work on it; that is what he did with the low-end PC hardware we had in the 90s, when he made Doom and Quake using every trick in the book to make these games run on 486 CPUs. Mobile VR is just the same challenge redefined. Go John!

[@Sirfrummel]

Don't forget he also worked on mobile games before smartphones -- I remember Doom RPG on a verizon flipphone I had.

[@firagabird]

You hit the nail right on the head! John isn't the champion of strictly high-end systems. He's the champion of optimizing the crap out of any systems. His most memorable achievement is Doom, but few people know that he also personally worked on ports to much weaker consoles, like the Atari Jaguar and Sega 32X.

[@Swarm509]

He recently talked on Joe Rogan where he still says mobile VR is the more interesting VR since PC powered VR can just be brute forced through the very powerful hardware we have access to at home. He is right, people want cordless and mobile and having one of the smartest people in tech working on it only means great things for the rest of us. He seems to love finding little hacks, new uses of hardware, and code to get things working on low end equipment.

[@HueyTheDoctor]

Why the hell wouldn't you just let the man talk for three hours if that's what he wants to do, which he clearly did. I don't care what you have scheduled, shift your goddamn schedule. It's ridiculous that they'd be rushing him off the stage as though anything they've got lined up next could be equally as important as Carmack.

[@westingtyler2]

yeah agreed. seriously. set up a livestream/theatre for like 5 hours just for him to rant about this stuff.

[@jeffdeprey6279]

Yea this video does not even show the end of his talk. I assume there was a Q&A also?

[@snarkyboojum]

Yeah. Welcome to Facebook.

[@SuperColdLemonade]

symptomatic ... and done everywhere, all the time ... ridiculously obvious with a genius like him though ;)=

[@DanielLiljar]

Humanity needs to clone this guy for the posterity, just imagine what human kind could accomplish with a hundred copies of Jhon carmack.

[@turbulenttimes3749]

this is how a "manager" in 2017 should talk at keynotes etc. it just sound honest, he doesnt try to sell you the "perfect" product but he explains why why why.... damn how much fb and this kind of plastic companys could learn from this legendary developer; damn it, learn from mr. carmack!

[@SpaceViking1]

Marco Rossi i think they have learned. they provide a show for the media and non-critical fans and additionally they also do something for the critical users and devs. In an extreme form it was shown in "1984" where the central power controlled daily life but secretly also made up an opposition which it controlled, too.

[@staaky]

Carmack Unscripted should be a series, without time limit.

[@MarcusHast]

The 360 video version of this continues after this was cut off. This link should start you off at the last 20 seconds that overlap between them: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZuyfKtrrtOneZYh43m11s

[@MikeTrieu]

Marcus Hast You da real MVP!

[@MarquisDeSang]

Where John Carmack is going, we are fallowing.

[@nickp82]

tr.v. fal·lowed, fal·low·ing, fal·lows 1. To plow (land) without seeding it afterward. 2. To plow and till (land), especially to eradicate or reduce weeds. What are you hoping to be growing there?

[@ChopLabalagun]

Carmack respect to you completely honest, not just says this is awesome you showed all points of view.

[@Cretkensigh]

This man, has done so much for us. truly he will be always remembered as super power of the gaming world.

[@Badders1977]

He's teaching the world how to improve VR through his knowledge and experience. What a guy.

[@FeralRabbit]

In Soviet Russia video is 60 John Carmacks per second.

[@MatheusLB2009]

All praise John of the house Carmack, rightful CTO of Oculus and the first programmers, lord of the master race, and protector of the realm

[@Aurora12488]

Absolutely fantastic talk; never stop doing these please.

[@rafalkowalczyk5027]

well I can listen him for hours; beautiful mind!

[@alanharrington]

I love that he is critical...

[@3xitt]

Yeah, the guy has a highly developed critical mind...

[@marsellusrex]

His marketing department must hate him! Carmack is the best!

[@gamecity7265]

Last words are amazing. Entertainment is a gift that offer itself in front of us. Not behind or on the side. 360° is good for Reality, Explore by ourself, make OUR own story, not so to watch someone else story, that is a point of view of a passed experience by definition. Yes for immersion with story but in front of us and framed. May the holographic screen could bring the presence of VR to the cinema.

[@HardyRyan]

I dont own a VR product as of yet but when I buy one it'll be an Oculus product because of John Carmack, Michael Abrash, and Nate Mitchell.

[@dolssondko]

I like when he was irritated that he was getting queued/reminded to wrap it up and move on to Q & A. Do not interrupt the Carmack.

[@mdsf01]

I'm so happy I waited till I had 90 minutes to watch this without interruptions. Brilliant!

[@Spo8]

Carmack's keynote is the highlight of every OC for me.

[@eugenealive]

John Carmack for president!

[@GabrielDalposso]

I have to say: This is even better than the Day 1 Keynote :)

[@dee_em_bee]

fascinating chap and great talk

[@VISUALISD]

Very exciting and inspirational stuff. I'm watching it on my Gear VR on Oclus browser, it should be Oculus video

[@ID1visor]

I don't know why but I really enjoy listening to this dude talk

[@MockingTruth]

yay! always worth watching Carmack...

[@AlexiGVS]

Genius.

[@jeffjones719]

pure

[@DamienPaulLabonte]

This is an excellent talk.

[@yautjacetanu]

Lol..... day 1 with mark zuckerberg 3.6k views, john carmack in 360, 28k views!

[@elitespa]

1 hours 33 minutes talking? omg this guy is epic, I need him to make content for my website jajaja, thanks for the video Oculus!

[@Skarredghost]

Amazing, as always

[@pianoman78]

I hope there soon is a lens upgrade to change the Rift CV1 lenses to the new GO type v2 lenses with less godrays.

[@willpillvr8332]

I ❤️ Oculus

[@Jixejo]

thanks for the very interesting information :)

[@hurd_]

Bow to the king.

[@swozzares]

I've no idea what he's talking about, but it sounds great!

[@jackzhang1844]

John Carmack for Facebook CTO

[@weightlessempty]

Jack Z He’s doing exactly what he wants to do and what he feels best at. Why do you think you know what job Carmack wants better than he does?

[@chiyuryuu2687]

Bleh, FB needs competition, suckerboard makes way too much money. He needs to have share that pie

[@wilfridtaylor]

Would be a waste. I would rather john be in front of a computer creating something cool.

[@dbporter]

friction matters a lot! so true

[@iFukuyama]

Is the Q&A going to be up later or is that only for the attendees?

[@MikeTrieu]

Duke Togo ⬆️Watch the 360 version⬆️

[@cybermad64]

There's 8 dislike on this video ! I don't understand, how is it possible do dislike a John Carmack talk ?

[@MikeTrieu]

Marc-André Désilets Because there are arseholes who find looking under the hood "boring". They just want to hear about the next shiny product, not learn about the journey that brought us our modern technological wonders.

[@Jdpoz]

Did they cut him off at the end? Seemed like they were trying to play him off near the end with the "flashing to get to the Q&A bit." Does anyone have a link to an uncut version of this or at least the Q&A part?

[@weightlessempty]

JDPoZ The 360 video is ~30 min longer, I think it includes the Q&A

[@ZhengCheng]

this guy is freaking amazing

[@chazcrasher4160]

I clicked on this video because I wanted to understand mobile VR more and found my self watching this video because he is a very a very nice speaker with such a tough topic. As he mentioned animal videos, it would be nice to see many more of them and not just cat videos. Is it possible to receive a free Oculus?

[@shadesilverwing592]

When John Carmack gets bored he finds a new hobby and he excels at it. I swear if he wanted to play hockey, he would be the a Connor McDavid or Carey Price in the NHL or , if he wanted to be a musician, he would be a Rock star along side Nine inch Nails or Ozzy, a brilliant surgeon, amazing architect. There isn't anything this fella can't do.

[@shimster13]

I want that t-shirt

[@CharlesVanNoland]

@13:07 "Embrace the grind. You've all shown that you're bold in starting to work on an emerging platform that's not really mainstream yet, but it takes more than just 'be bold'. You have to actually work really hard." @13:41 "Success isn't about that one brilliant idea, it's about the doing the five-hundred or a thousand little things right, and getting it all done."

[@_MaxHeadroom_]

I think I've thought of a way that mobile vr could be near as powerful as pc vr one day. What if oculus sold some kind of VR power box that would basically be just a graphics card and a battery that wirelessly transmits the data to your headset. There's no reason it cant exist today because wireless PC level vr already exists. There could be small, very portable ones that would still give a performance boost with its small size. It's hard to imagine a better workaround than that besides waiting decades for on-board mobile to catch up with pc, if it ever does. If you're already carrying around a vr headset, carrying a graphics card/battery combo with it isn't huge especially given the benefits.

[@EspireMike]

The end of the talk seems to be missing. Can the Oculus KZbin team upload it?

[@EspireMike]

For anyone that is interested, Oculus have a video titled "Day 2 Keynote: Carmack Unscripted in 360", a 360 recording of this talk, and it includes the full talk + question time :)

[@chiyuryuu2687]

He was probably responsible for getting my 980m gtx to work very well with oculus, when everyone else would settle with” you’ll just have to upgrade your computer.”

[@repogamesstudio2366]

That gives me power to develop games ;)

[@Sirus20x6]

Don't ever cut off Carmack

[@zorglub667]

been searching for reviews that give me an idea about how the oculus go will compare to the gear VR, the pros and cons. hands on this, review that, no clear answer. carmack talks for 60 seconds -> i know all i need to know.

[@weipingzhang3621]

great

[@tvi1372]

TY! ∞❤∞

[@VijayRudraraju0]

Long live Carmack!

[@johnappleseed8839]

I'd like to express my strongest heterosexual love for this man.

[@mycollegeshirt]

feels like an advertisement for handmade hero in there

[@johnhammer8668]

Could never add John Carmack talks to watch later. Once started its impossible to stop listening.

[@joeblack4436]

All that I've expected for all these years is one simple thing. That I could actually buy the stuff in my country through official channels.

[@joeysipos]

Smart man!

[@JayPase]

We need world scale (cordless) VR for people living in high rise apartments that may want to play on their balconies.

[@andtpfack8243]

carmack just cuts the bullshit completely, on point.

[@GmanMilli]

50:00 Overheating is the main reason my VR goggles mostly collect dust. Maybe the goggles should include a cooling unit, at least a fan. With VR backpacks with active cooling you can have high performance of a desktop while maintaining full mobility (the added weight on the back shouldn't be all that much, some beneficial exercise.) 1:30:20 Dual 180deg cameras sure would be nice, 360deg & stereographic at the same time. Stereo-audio would be nice as well, so if you turn 90deg to the right a sound that was in front of you is now in your left ear.

[@cristianosabian6720]

When i was little his face from Quake 3 fromcthe level keep demon scared the shit out of me for 2 years ;(

[@TheTukTuk2008]

Mastermind!

[@pumpuppthevolume]

so u can hack the Go to do daydream .....is what I'm hearing :P

[@Lightshockie]

based Carmack

[@MikeTrieu]

Aww, they cut him off at the end. Didn't even get to the Q&A 😒

[@pumpuppthevolume]

no cellular on the Go .....well on the off chance u might use it on the go with internet ......u can use tethering to your phone

[@NikoKun]

I am SOO glad they didn't put cellular into it.. That would make it harder for people to get/use.

[@Smood47]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa oculus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@springchickena1]

the quest... omfg

[@r15u5k00]

vr audio: if you have a headset on, over your ears with a strap, why not take advantage of this contact and use bone conduction?

[@Doug923]

There might be another explanation why videos of roller coaster rides and honor genre are popular as shown in Facebook data. People having the gears to watch those videos probably are early adopters of technology. By definition innovators and early adopters have higher risk or fear tolerance than the lag majority. If this is true in the case, it simply means the right type of contents attracted right group of people with particular traits. But I could be wrong because I have no idea how to test this hypothesis. If Facebook analytics could profile users' personality traits based on their patterns in media consumption, might be there is a chance to compare those who enjoy videos of roller coaster rides vs the rest of majority and see whether they are different.

[@Lightshockie]

Wish they just let him keep talking tbh

[@chadwest5650]

John probably doesn't talk for a year then just lets it all out.

[@Leonardo0leandro0]

This talk is great but it's pretty long so i would recommend listening to it on your phone. Not much going on in the video.

[@MikeTrieu]

leonardo windstorm So listen to it @ 2X speed. There's plenty to digest in this video if you have the inclination to learn.

[@PashaDefragzor]

Oculus creators will hire a bounty hunter after I give my thoughts about VR platform

[@fusedtoast5367]

Will this guy always look like he's the same age? He looks no older than he did 15 years ago.

[@westingtyler2]

Carmack will outlive us all. He'll be standing on an apocalyptic wasteland stage talking to the robots the same way.

[@SuperSkandale]

Give me 1080p60 at the bare minimum, cmon.

[@tensevo]

Oculus FTW

[@Playr0ne]

You still cant use Oculus Go if you don't have modern phone. I long time cant buy this headset only because i have mobile phone with older version android then support Oculus app. What if you can buy only Oculus Go or only Mobile Phone, this logical fail from Facebook and Oculus team.

[@ssfnathotmail]

lol i'm pretty sure i just watched this whole thing from a horrible different camera angle?

[@MrGarfi]

1:04:07 Hah I can really feel his sadness there - this is also exactly why websites today contains horrendous JS bundles that are bigger than the codebase of the original Doom. Necessary evil indeed.

[@carver7585]

Wow, look at all those people there...must be at least a dozen. This is the billion dollar revolution?

[@pumpuppthevolume]

well one guy in there has a net worth of 72.2 billion USD

[@JedRichards]

What you are talking about? The audience was quite large.

[@MistaGobo]

14:37 "the power of the PC will never get to a mobile platform. We will run out of Moore's Law first. It's just not going to get there." Huh. Really? We can't be hitting theoretical limits already?

[@vrerse4772]

Maybe we have to waiting for Quantum Computing

[@aldebaran0_]

VRerse Quantum computing isnt better than normal processors in normal tasks, sometimes it's actually worse.

[@gracefool]

Elliot Walmsley actually yes we're not that far off

[@metalngames509]

A socially awkward nerd that speaks fluent techno babble. I'd say he's the perfect man for the job. Lol

[@foxcar29]

yeah ,im from spain ,andalucia seville...AMAZING ONE HOUR AND 33 MINUTES TALKING WITH NO STOPING...THIS MAN ITS MY HERO XDD its a joke..its was a interesting talking

[@EliotMcLellan]

HE. OWES. ME. THANK GOD

[@MikeKleinsteuber]

Nice talk but however VR develops, the consumer versions of AR/MR (ODG and ML (we hope)) are what people are waiting for.

[@MaJoRJayjay]

Sure they are, but a development in either one is an improvement for all. Eg: Standalone VR is still good for AR/"MR", once the transparent display tech is better (able to go from 0% to 100% transparency and at 90+ fps, possibly even 4K+ resolution), and the inside-out tracking systems are better (full hand + finger tracking, not just Hololens style gestures), then I'm pretty sure the "two" will be one and the same depending on weight/size constraints.

[@MikeKleinsteuber]

Hopefully ML will be a game changer and you'll have VR, AR and MR in one device and Oculus will struggle to maintain any market share with a straightforward VR only device...

[@MaJoRJayjay]

Odds are yes, someday a Magic Leap styled device will actually exist and unify them all like you say. Although even their prototype videos make it look like a gesture based device with basic "if hand overlaps 3D space" checks on top. Not quite the same as systems like Microsoft's experimental hand tracking research with a Kinect V2 (see more: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4XdYq2HdtOAmbc ), or the Glove One if it hopefully delivers on the Kickstarter promises. By the time this kind of technology is actually available though for consumers? Oculus will probably also be at the same level of product development if it's still around (which I would guess to be likely due to them being owned by Facebook)

[@Josua070]

Frankly speaking, what he says reflects on the limits on current tech. For all we know, within 5 or 10 years, some genius who had a bright idea to make that "magic hardware" which would jump the current limits & go to the point where we can have a standalone VR headset with high-end specs equal to that of PCs. While I won't say he's wrong about the point that there's no magic hardware that could make hardware take a leap. however, we can't really say if he's right that there'll be no magic hardware within 5 or 10 years. Just saying.

[@vrerse4772]

Yeah. I'm sure you know better than a guy created a game that created the entire 3D graphic card industry

[@RoryOConnor]

"Iam ... SATAN !!!" No worries, keep up your incredible VR work progress! ;P

[@pumpuppthevolume]

yes ...yes 360 video .....by that u mean 360 3d right

[@levridge6601]

Advise devs to STOP making VR games where you teleport everywhere. Give us the option to 'walk', stop killing the immersion. That is all.

[@westingtyler2]

yes. in my game, you can teleport AND you can walk. it drives me nuts how devs create these immersive worlds then put you in a straightjacket on a furniture dolly. westingtyler.tumblr.com/post/148482171300/current-level-geometry-from-some-of-the-prettier

[@zoeherriot]

LevRidge well it does make a lot of people really sick. I nearly vomit with the ability to walk. And the design decisions you make when you teleport vs walk are often different - so it's not always practical to offer both.