Quakecon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote Speech

[Tute]

He said "on there" 230 times over 180 minutes. An average of 1.28 times a minute.

You have an odd hobby.

 

[arc@css]

Doesn't look like that many are in the audience after all.



Sparse voxel octree sounds so cool. Huge jump from vertexes and fragments.

 

[dante6491]

Doesn't look like that many are in the audience after all.



Sparse voxel octree sounds so cool. Huge jump from vertexes and fragments.

Think most people got up and left

Other than the fact I have been to the toilet twice over the course of the presentation, I would love to go and listen one day.

 

[arc@css]

Think most people got up and left

We're the hardcore ones.

Yeah, I'd love to go to one too.


Going off at a tangent, looking back, I'm still surprised that they sold to Zenimax. I never really thought of Carmack going down that road.

 

[Tute]

The Carmack machine rolls on towards three and a half hours.

 

[Merlin5]

I was right, he's managing to maintain his energy levels due to some sort of augmentation.

That bottle he's holding is filled with rasterised rocket fuel supplemented by juice of open gl and ray traced oil.

 

[arc@css]

That bottle he's holding is filled with rasterised rocket fuel supplemented by juice of open gl and ray traced oil.

 

[m4rk84]

Iv jumped into the stream for the odd 20mins, he's a fascinating man who is really really passionate about this tech stuff!

 

[arc@css]

One guy in the chat wrote something along the lines of how is that asian guy going to understand his answer. I struggle and I am English.



"On there"...300....this is CARMACK!



Damn, he's finished.

 

[Tute]

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE ****ING WITH ME.

 

[Mr Krugga]

265 "on theres", 220 minutes speech.

 

[arc@css]

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE ****ING WITH ME.

I'm packing my best hiking boots, Tute. Turn left to head towards Texas!

 

[Tute]

I'm going to break my foot off in his backside for that.

 

[Mr Krugga]

 

[Tute]

I just don't get it though. He talked about not hyping Doom 4 so that it wouldn't lead to disappointment like RAGE, and instead talked about Doom 3 BFG and his VR headset.

Protip John: Whatever you talk about is going to build hype. Now everyone's just going to expect Doom 3 BFG to be special, or for you to reinvent gaming when your headset does eventually hit retail.

 

[Mr Krugga]

I just don't get it though. He talked about not hyping Doom 4 so that it wouldn't lead to disappointment like RAGE, and instead talked about Doom 3 BFG and his VR headset.

Protip John: Whatever you talk about is going to build hype. Now everyone's just going to expect Doom 3 BFG to be special, or for you to reinvent gaming when your headset does eventually hit retail.

It's not his VR device though. He's only supporting it, as far as I know.

And like he said, it's nothing to get excited about for average consumers yet.

 

[Tute]

Ah right. I thought it was going to become some kind of product.

 

[dante6491]

It isn't even a headset he is making for the public. He spent the time talking about his voyages into the realm of VR and what manufacturers should do. It was great from a techy/nerdy perspective, like how he scrapped the Sony headset together with a custom gyroscope and coded it himself to make it work.

 

[Raventu]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game

This is the VR headset he was talking about. It's not his, but Palmer Luckey's. John is just very much behind it. There are a few other massive names behind it too

 

[KillBoY_UK]

dam I missed it is it on you tube or something as some years there seems to be no official recording of it