Meta’s VR consulting CTO, John Carmack, is leaving the company after “a decade in VR”, accusing the firm of “self-sabotage”.
In an internal note seen by Business Insider, Carmack criticised the company’s “efficiency”, adding that despite Quest 2 being “almost exactly what [he] wanted to see” with its “mobile hardware, inside out tracking, optional PC streaming, 4K(ish) software”, he was “offended” at seeing a “5 per cent GPU utilisation number in production”.
“We have a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but we constantly self-sabotage and squander effort,” Carmack – who co-created the Doom and Quake franchises – said in the leaked memo. “There is no way to sugarcoat this; I think our organisation is operating at half the effectiveness that would make me happy.