Oculus Connect 2: Live Coding Session with John Carmack

Oculus Connect 2 is our second annual developer conference where engineers, designers, and creatives from around the world come together to learn about the future of the Oculus platform and push virtual reality forward.

Session Description:

John Carmack will demonstrate the process of developing a simple VR application using a new development environment for rapid development and open deployment on Gear VR. You’ll also learn more about media processing, remote development, deployment, and multi-user setup.

Speaker:

John Carmack, CTO, Oculus

Official Oculus Channels:

[andinuruljihad]

Can you imagine this guy has spent his whole life coding and still looks at the keyboard when he types. Carmack is human!

[cfrend]

What an awesome experience to watch him live code & do Q&A. That's me at 58:00 asking about Vulkan.

[WilliamCulver]

I've seen so many Carmack vids going back to the 90's but oddly I'd never seen him actually code until now. Don't know if i was expecting some 300 words per minute typing but something mesmerizing happens watching Carmack type :)

[marioskoutras]

The ending is weird and awesome the same time! I remember reading on Masters Of Doom that Carmack was kinda cold and antisocial guy, but it seems to be the most polite human being on earth.

[TheBendixSA]

Wish I could watch John work everyday
he should just livestream his coding, Id watch it 24/7. Such a GOD amongst mere mortals when it comes to code.

[jamesbubu]

Watching this man code while providing commentary is pure sex.

[vinniciusrosa]

I am a game programmer. It is nice to see that even the great programmers sometimes have to code by trying. :D

[CharlesVanNoland]

I'm of the mind that Carmack was really on to something here - a quick way to make VR apps. Not sure why the powers-that-be decided against it, because this is the kind of thing that VR really needed - especially at that time (and even now). Now we have Unity/Unreal for devs to make games, but I feel like there's room for an engine that's even better suited specifically for VR - and *making games in VR*, which is where the money is at. When I'm finished with my existing project I plan to port a bunch of my last game engine - an OpenGL multiplayer procedurally generated affair (which I spent 3 years writing after learning how to write game engines for 20 years) to a super lean Vulkan engine that's designed specifically for users to make and share their own games with on the Quest, and probably PCVR too. This is what VR needs.

[forthehomies]

Carmack inspires me to try and excel at anything I try to do. Such a passionate and driven guy, high up on my role models list

[jcmc]

When Carmack talks about his son I can't help but wonder if he'll be one of the future pioneers of VR, you know, a far future 20+ years or less. You know what they say, the pupil surpasses the master, so I hope Carmack teaches Carmack Jr. everything he needs to know to make the future of VR epicly awesome!

[HybridEnergy]

Oculus made the best decision getting this guy

[sncln]

You were all right about that ending being neat. It was more than neat; it was special. I thought he was going to treat us with some VR Doom I, but we got so much more. Thank you John for the always-entertaining and thought-provoking lectures. Thank you for letting us into your mind for an hour. :)

[midnightsyntax]

I love this. When Im coding im often finding myself switching work from my project to building utility software for making the development progress faster. John you are a genious <3

[TheSneezingMonkey]

It's scary how smart this guy is. I try to follow....but I fail miserably.

[murderbunnies]

Watching john check the IP address twice makes me feel so much less stupid when I constantly do it.

[zadeh]

Carmack has such an incredible mind. It is half man, half machine.

[retropragma]

Someone give Carmack control over the visible screen FFS.

[gamemusicmeltingpot]

20 years from now ill be abl to tell kids "I was there to watch carmack code!"

[saluk]

Pretty interesting and nice for iterating having the script executed on the pc and communicating over tcp. He mentioned running the script on the phone itself later, I wonder what the performance penalty there might be there.

[tensevo]

I would love to watch King Carmack program Doom VR with his 11 year old (now 14?) Prince Carmack.