Recently, the largest news in the VR industry is the official delivery of Oculus Rift. The founder Palmer Luckey personally served as a ducklers, flying to Alaska to send the first product to the world's first user. The first book for Oculus Rift is a 1.5-minute booking on January 7, 2016, and the current delivery time is now in July.
However, today's small edger is not the story of the 90s of Palmer, but about a 70 story behind Oculus Rift. He is the founder of Oculus VR's CTO, computer gaming company ID Software, computer game "German headquarters", "doom" and "quake" founders, his name is John Carmack.
John Kamak was born in 1970, with a strong interest from the computer. In 1991, Kamark and several friends creating ID Software. In 1993, the success of the game "Doom" made the ID into the industry's peak. In 1995, the pure profit of the ID of more than $ 1.5 million, all of the company's employees have become a hundred Wanfoxa, let the industry's colleagues envy. The famous games of IDs include the "German headquarters" series, "doom" series, "quake" series, etc. These games are a milestone in computer game history. About Kamak's stories in the game are not to say, the following mainly talk about his story with Oculus Rift.
From the forum to crowdfunding
In the 2010, Kamark has been paying attention to VR technology. He plans to make VR equipment yourself. At that time, he and Parme were a member of the VR enthusiast forum website named "MTBS3D". The young Parme has developed VR equipment alone, and has developed sixth generation products from 2011, "rift". Parmer launched a crowdfunding in the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. His initial idea is to release Rift as a VR fan DIY device. The target customer is only 100, in order to initiate this crowd, Parmer registered the company, "Oculus VR".
When Kamak saw a prototype of Parmer in the MTBS3D Forum, he immediately booked a, he recognized the idea of Palmer and made a lot of improvements in software. Then Kamark has developed a VR version against his own game "Doom 3 BFG Edition" and demonstrated this version at the 2012 E3 game show, and the results were praised. Oculus rift suddenly fired, and its direct consequence is that Parmer had to formally decorating and started full-time entrepreneurship.
From the formation team to be acquired by Facebook
After the Kamark gave the Oculus Rift prototype to Brandan Iribe, the latter was the former executives of Gaikai and Scaleworm, and finally Brandon joined Oculus VR to serve as CEO, while Scaleworm's CTO Michael Antonov has also been pulled to Oculus VR as a chief software architect. In August 2013, Carmark officially served as the CTO of Oculus VR.
With such a group of people, Oculus VR started to enter the rapid growth period, and it raised a total of $ 2.4 million in Kickstarter, which is 974% of the original target amount. Oculus VR has thus began to develop consumer products and hire more employees and has an independent office space. March 2014 Facebook announced the acquisition of Oculus VR with $ 2 billion, the industry generally believes this is a sign of VR technology into the revival period.
From Oculus Rift to Gear VR
Since Joining Oculus VR in 2013, Kamark has been closely involved in the company's mobile plan. 2014 Samsung launched mobile VR equipment Gear VR, and established technical partnership with Oculus VR, Kamac's main energy is placed on the optimization of GEAR VR. At that time, the Gear VR can only determine the location change of the user's head (such as a change in horizontal axis and vertical axis), but Kamak hopes that the user can record real geographic locations when wearing VR devices, which will help Develop a larger market space in VR and AR fields.
At the same time, Carmark also develops a scripting language called "VRScript" for Gear VR. Familiar-programmed friends understand that the scripting language is "light" programming language on the underlying language of the system, and the benefit is that developers do not need to directly configure complex underlying environments, and only need to develop software based on execution logic. For example, the scripting language is equivalent to giving you a bunch of building materials, you can use building materials to build a house without the need to start from the chopping tree. Through VRScript, developers can easily and quickly develop a large number of casual mobile VR applications, and Kamark hopes to attract more non-game developers to participate in the Ecosystem of VR in this way.
Develop from games to rocket research and development
Said the title, Kamak is not only the gods in the game and the VR field, but he is also a rocket technology enthusiast. Before and after 2000, Carmark established its own aerospace Armadillo Aerospace. In October 2008, Armadillo Aerospace participated in the competition of NASA on the moon landing, winning the first place in the first stage competition and got $ 500,000 bonuses in the second stage competition. 2013 Armadillo Aerospace enters "Sleep Mode", industry conjecture this has direct relationship with Kamak to Oculus VR.
In 2016, Kamark is a good thing: Oculus Rift is officially shipped, and the British Film Academy officially announced that the 2016 BAFTA Game Grand Prize will belong to Kamark to commend his huge contribution to the 3D game and VR.
There have been such a paragraph for Carmark: Although he is engaged in the most advanced work of the contemporary, it is a thinking of ancient Greek philosopher style. His loneliness, for technology persistence, creates code creation The interest in the world exceeds the pursuit of material life. As a brain powder of games and VR, Xiaobian is very expected to bring Mark to players more surprises in the future, here is deeply blessing this game veterans to create more beautiful things for the world.
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