John Carmack Facebook Connect 2021 Keynote

Why HN readers recommended it

Commenters praise it as clear, honest thinking from Carmack and recommend it to technical people interested in VR and the metaverse.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

UploadVR

Topic

vr and the metaverse

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• The Index is great, but it will lose in the end because of 3 reasons: 1) much cheaper price 2) portability 3) seamless onboarding experience I love my index but there is no way that it can currently beat oculus because of these things. Also, …

• Here's his actual keynote speech: [VIDEO] As always, John is a master of communication and clear thought.

• > and the VR/meta chapter won't help Tangential to this thread, I listened to Carmacks keynote[0] for the Facebook Connect event, and it’s very refreshing to hear him push back, in ways that just make sense , instead of towing some corporate line that’s part …