John Carmack Quits Job Building Metaverse, Blasts Facebook

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'This is the end of my decade in VR.'

Carmack went on to say that in his 10 years at Facebook, he was not able to be as "persuasive" as he wished — a situation he said was "admittedly self-inflicted" because he refused to move from Dallas to the San Francisco Bay Area after the company"I could have moved to Menlo Park after the Oculus acquisition and tried to wage battles with generations of leadership," Carmack continued, again seeming to reference Zuckerberg and his acolytes, "but I was busy...

Overall, the letter from the part-time Meta advisor is as full of self-reflection as it is frustration — the most anyone could ask for from someone as big a deal as Carmack as he admits to struggling with a sense of failure from within and without.

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