John Carmack
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AGI at Keen Technologies, former CTO Oculus VR, Founder Id Software and Armadillo Aerospace
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07-08-2010 03:40:11
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I regret not doing more to support and defend Palmer Luckey at Facebook. We were in different states and divisions, and I was largely out of the political loop, but when I became aware of the situation I should have made a clear and open statement of opposition to the witch hunt.…
I was aware of Archemedis’ mirror based death ray from antiquity (and the MythBusters replication), but TIL that solar mirrors were commercially used in the 15th century for soldering. From Walter Isaacson’s Leonardo:
I had some conversations back in the GearVR/Go days with Richard Garriott about making a mobile VR version of one of the early Ultima games. Not doing a fresh design, but taking all the beats of the original and just making it look decent in VR for a cost effective development.…