John Cormack leaves Metta with a note criticizing the company’s performance

John Carmack, a virtual reality pioneer, has since joined Meta from Oculus A $2 billion acquisitionHe left the social network. Business Insider First announcing his departure, citing people familiar with the company, he published fragments of an internal memo that contained sentiments critical of Meta and its augmented and virtual reality efforts. After Insiders And The New York Times’ The reports surfaced, Carmack confirmed on Twitter Facebook He was actually leaving the company and released his memo to employees in full.

“This is the end of my decade in VR,” Carmack said in his note. He began by praising the Quest 2 headset, which he “wanted to see from the start,” with its inside-out tracking, optional PC streaming, cost-effectiveness and near-4K resolution screen. However, he argued, “if different decisions had been made, it could have happened a bit faster and gone better”.

Carmack’s main issue with Meta is the company’s performance — or, as he notes, the lack thereof. “We have a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but we continue to self-sabotage and waste effort,” he wrote. “There’s no way to sugarcoat it; I think our system is working at half the efficiency that makes me happy.”

The executive, “vocal at the highest level,” said he felt he could move things along, but he “clearly wasn’t persuasive enough.” Although he didn’t give detailed examples, Cormack noted that a good portion of the things he complained about came back his way only a year or two after evidence of the problem had already accumulated. “I’ve never been able to kill stupid things before doing damage, or setting a direction and really sticking to a group,” he added. Carmack admits at the end of the memo that he’s “tired of the fight,” but he believes that “VR can bring value to most people in the world, and no company can do that better than Meta.”

As an administrator He said on TwitterHe makes no secret that he is “always very frustrated with how things are done.” [Meta.]”One Podcast interview Back in August with Lex Friedman, he He said the loss was 10 billion dollars He was “sickened” by the company’s AR and VR division [his] It’s gut-wrenching to think about spending that much money.” He wrote posts on Meta’s internal message board criticizing the features of its headsets and the need to install software updates before using them. When it comes to how it wants to build its vision of the Metaverse.

Carmack became Oculus’ first chief technology officer in 2013 after leaving IT Software, where he co-created. Disaster And Earthquake Owners. He joined Meta in 2014 when Facebook acquired Oculus for $2 billion. In 2019, he Step back from Oculus He served as CTO only in an advisory capacity to focus on artificial general intelligence (AGI), or types of AI that can perform human tasks. His startup, Keen Technologies, is working on building those kinds of AI systems.