You probably know John Carmack as the co-founder of id Software, the studio behind such legendary games as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake, which he programmed. However, in 2013 he left id and became the CTO of Meta’s Oculus VR, now rebranded as Reality Labs.
He spent almost 10 years there, but his aspirations were apparently different from what people might think.
An X/Twitter user known as CIX shared their thoughts of a world where Carmack was the CTO of Meta instead of the current Andrew Bosworth. “The AR/VR industry would surely be in a much better place,” the added.
Carmack noticed the post and replied that he had just wanted to be a “VR Dictator”: