John Carmack Quotes

I've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up.

As cyberspace matures into a totally immersive experience, I'm betting it will turn out to be fully odor-enabled.

I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

Maybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events.

Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance to wave your hands around, Minority-Report style, and move things around on a screen? This sounded like almost too much fun, with gadget-y pizzazz that sounded astonishing.

As people are showing the Rift to friends, word will spread that VR can be that good. So I'm not so worried in terms of adoption of the Rift.

That's what we're all about: delivering a really comfortable VR experience that everybody can enjoy and afford.

There's going to be a lot of collaborative social experiences with Rift and Touch.

We look at Sony as someone who's jumping into the space to help evangelize and build out VR. They're very centered around a console experience.

I do think that we're gonna move towards this world where eventually you'll be able to capture a whole experience that you're in and be able to send that to someone.

I really have thought about immersive storytelling my whole career, so when I first heard about VR, I was like, 'Oh, this sounds like it's for me.'

Oculus version three or five or whatever it ends up being is something that can be used unplugged - we'd have our own Android stuff and all that - but you could plug it into the PC and use that.

The whole thing with VR is that it doesn't matter, local versus networked gaming. The goal in virtual reality isn't to have people sit in the same room with headsets on.

VR is going to be defined by the content that is designed explicitly for virtual reality.

There's three things that you need for virtual reality to work. You need the hardware that's affordable and doesn't make people sick, you need an audience that is willing to pay for it, and you need the content.

Virtual reality, to me, seems to have a number of different tiers. Entry-level-tier VR is this experience: on a phone, some simple head-tracking, and some quick and dirty, game-engine-quality stuff.

Our project goal was to push the boundaries of VR technology to show what a surf trip feels like from the first-person perspective. I'm excited to share this. It's pretty incredible knowing my mom can now experience riding a 20-foot wave.

We have this vision, that over time, social play and great content will be the core of great VR.

We brought augmented reality to the marketplace with Nintendo 3DS. We made it fun; we made it social.

I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time. I know that some of my colleagues disagree, but I believe in it.

A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools.

Once you have an augmented reality display, you don't need any other form of display. Your smart phone does not need a screen. You don't need a tablet. You don't need a TV. You just take the screen with you on your glasses wherever you go.