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QuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote

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Tech pioneers & interviewsGame programming & enginesVR, AR & spatial computing

What it is

John Carmack's long QuakeCon 2012 keynote, a free-ranging talk covering software engineering, game platforms, game streaming, and his early head-mounted display and VR work.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN rates his QuakeCon keynotes among the best technical talks, and cites this one for the VR segment and for his views on Linux gaming.

  • 6 people recommended it
  • 7 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2012, last 2018

What HN commenters said

  1. “HN will probably like best the one where he talks about his experiments in VR”

    Carmack on VR experiments; keynotes beat most prepared talks.

    SonOfLilit, 2016-10 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?”

  2. “His QuakeCon talks are particularly good.”

    Captivating, natural speaker on graphics development.

    hotwire, 2018-04 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?”

  3. “Start Here”

    Starting point on AR work.

    jcr, 2012-08 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: What happened to Augmented Reality?”

  4. “John Carmack did a pretty fascinating segment about his work on something to this effect”

    Carmack segment on head mounted display work.

    wh-uws, 2012-10 · Recommendation · in “Is it possible to create a world like in the movie Matrix?”

  5. “definitely check out his QuakeCon keynotes”

    Further Carmack keynotes to watch.

    ramidarigaz, 2014-09 · Recommendation · in “Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014 [video]”

  6. “I recommend watching all his talks and interviews.”

    Carmack talks and interviews worth watching.

    erikbye, 2017-02 · Recommendation · in “Id Software Programming Principles”

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Topics: john carmack, quakecon, virtual reality, software engineering, id software, keynote

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