http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-08-07-john-carmack-joins-oculus-as-chief-technology-officer
If you’re no familiar with the Oculus Rift, it’s essentially a headset that allows the viewer to see a true 3D virtual world. We have one here and it is a very neat thing to demo. You can, while wearing it, look in all directions and see a true virtual world. I’ve never seen anything quite like it.
Unfortunately, right now, it makes a great demo but everyone who has tried it gets a distinct sense of motion sickness. You definitely wouldn’t want to wear it for more than a few minutes. Perhaps whatever causes that is something that John Carmack can help solve since it is extremely interesting technology with a lot of potential use beyond gaming. It’s cool enough that it’s one of the things we always show it to people when they come visit it.
It's amazing what a college drop out can do (Carmack, Gates, Zuckerberg). I wish I had been smart enough to not need to go to college .
Carmack is a very interesting guy. Rocketeer of sorts, too.
I can't wait till I can live totally jacked-in with a BTL chip.
I've never had any problems with motion sickness. It felt perfectly natural to me. It only happens to a subset of people -- it's a minority, and it's a big minority, but a minority that will shrink quickly as the hardware improves.
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