QuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote

Why HN readers recommended it

HN rates his QuakeCon keynotes among the best technical talks, and cites this one for the VR segment and for his views on Linux gaming.

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

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

QuakeCon Official

Topic

game development and vr

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

16

Recommendation years in dataset

2012–2018

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 Birth and Death of Javascript" by Gary Bernhardt (probably the most talented speaker on tech) at [LINK] I'd mention Bret Victor's work before (maybe Drawing Dynamic Visualizations?), but Bret cheats by writing a lot of amazing code for each of his talks, and most …

• John Carmack is an absolutely brilliant speaker. Conversational, captivating and effortlessly natural. I could listen to him talk all day about the most arcane bits of graphics development which i'll never understand but am fascinated by regardless. His QuakeCon talks are particularly good. QuakeCon 2011 …

• Augmented Reality has always been difficult, expensive, and very limited, but on the bright side, some really great work is being done on it. Start Here: [VIDEO] You might also enjoy: [LINK]