Earlier yesterday, John Carmack shared his thoughts on AMD’s Mantle. During Nvidia’s Montreal event, Carmack claimed that although he would be tempted to use Mantle, he would not do such a thing at this point. Carmack claimed that it’s not stupid – for AMD – to attempt something like that, however he believed that Sony and Microsoft would not embrace it. But why is Carmack against this new API? Continue reading John Carmack: Nvidia’s OpenGL extensions rival Mantle, 8GBs on consoles not a significant change→
A lot of you asked for the video links about John Carmack’s speeches during this year’s QuakeCon. And thankfully, Bethesda has delivered. The big publisher has not only released his amazing and annual QuakeCon keynote, but has also uploaded his speech about the physics of light and rendering. There is really nothing more to add, other than you should definitely watch them. So sit back and enjoy! Continue reading John Carmack’s QuakeCon 2013 Keynote & Speech About The Physics of Light and Rendering→
The Oculus Rift Team announced today that John Carmack will be officially joining them as their new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Carmack co-founded id Software, served as lead programmer on Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and the Quake series, and is one of the pioneers of 3D graphics. It has not been confirmed yet whether Carmack has left id Software or not (ninja edit: Carmack will not leave id Software, though his role remains unknown. He will be working full time in the Oculus Rift Team). Continue reading John Carmack Has Joined The Oculus Rift Team As A CTO→
Back in May, we informed you about John Carmack’s beliefs regarding next-generation consoles. As Carmack said back then, a lot of games that will be released on next-generation consoles will still run at 30fps and not at 60s. Today, Carmack reconfirmed those beliefs, despite the recent rumors about the hardware that will power both X720 and PS4. Continue reading John Carmack still believes that a lot of next-gen games will run at 30fps→
The Kickstarter Campaign of Oculus Rift, the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games, has ended and was quite successful as it managed to raise almost two and a half million dollars, with 9522 people backing it up. Oculus Rift is a new virtual reality (VR) headset designed specifically for video games that promises to change the way you think about gaming forever. With an incredibly wide field of view, high resolution display, and ultra-low latency head tracking, the Rift provides a truly immersive experience that allows you to step inside your favorite game and explore new worlds like never before. Continue reading Oculus Rift Kickstarter Campaign Ended – Raised Almost Two And A Half Million Dollars→
Do you remember that awful meme that the human eye could not see more than 24fps? Well, by now we all know that it was inaccurate and laugh when someone mentions something like that. And it seems that John Carmack got tired of that meme. That theory was based on the the fact that movies were played in 24Hz and looked quite smooth. Well, the truth is that even those 24Hz movies are not as smooth as you think they are, and everything will change when James Cameron Peter Jackson will present the 48Hz version of The Hobbit. Continue reading John Carmack is tired of the 24fps myth, believes there’ll be lots of 30fps games in next-gen consoles→
The first benchmarks of Kepler will be released in the following days and we can’t wait to see what the green team has in store for us. It is said that the card is a beast when it comes to raw performance numbers and features some pretty interesting features. One of them is the dynamic framerate function when played in Surround and another one is an adaptive vertical sync solution. But did you know that John Carmack was the one that has pushed for such a feature? Continue reading Nvidia’s Kepler sports a ‘game-changing’ adaptive vertical sync feature; pushed by John Carmack→
