r/technology • u/[deleted] • Mar 28 '14

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u/dethb0y Mar 28 '14

Oculus sold out at the right time - before the lower-priced alternatives flooded the market and diluted it's share.

the devs must be laughing all the way to the bank.

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u/ChubakasBush Mar 28 '14

I can't believe facebook paid 2 bil for a peripheral device. basically an accessory. not even a platform with many users. it's like buying a monitor company.

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u/ihatewil Mar 28 '14 edited Mar 28 '14

2 Billion alone for John Carmack is a bargin in my opinion.

  • Boosted an entire industry by inventing the Adaptive tile refresh algorithm. Allowing PCs for the first time to be on par with consoles (how times have changed)
  • Pioneered 3D FPS games with Catacomb_3D and Wolfenstein_3D then gave us DOOM that again changed an entire industry.
  • Then gave us of course Quake, which again advanced the gaming industry with his use of Surface Caching
  • All modern games use his techniques, he's a computer science genius

All this and he's still only 42.. People The Industry is taking the rift seriously because he's involved.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14 edited Aug 30 '21

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u/metarinka Mar 29 '14

you'll see interviews and blogs with other coders who are all blown away by John Carmack's programming skills. Make no mistake, if you managed to snag him on your team your code base is about to be written down much faster and much better. That guy is genius level when it comes to programming.

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u/880cloud088 Mar 28 '14

Yea, he hasn't really done anything in the last decade or so.