John Carmack, legendary game designer, rocket guy and VR enthusiast, has announced that he is leaving both Meta/Facebook and the virtual reality business itself, after a decade as one of its most prominent champions.
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Carmack’s position was as an executive consultant. He initially sent his farewell message to colleagues in an internal memo, but when that was leaked in part to the media, he decided to post the whole thing—including some clarifications—on his Facebook page instead.
Here it is in full:
As his clarification states, while his comments may seem damning, they’re not necessarily related to any individual people he worked with, or decisions made above him. They’re more about his clear passion for the idea of optimisation itself, a structural and systemic issue that, at a company as big as Meta, might have been maddening for a guy used to writing code and firing rockets into space.
