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John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta

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520 points OlympicMarmoto | 2 comments | 29 Aug 25 16:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Aurornis ◴[29 Aug 25 21:23 UTC] No.45069549[source]▶
> They also got me reported to HR by the manager of the XROS effort for supposedly making his team members feel bad

I've only seen John Carmack's public interactions, but they've all been professional and kind.

It's depressing to imagine HR getting involved because someone's feelings had been hurt by an objective discussion from a person like John Carmack.

I'm having flashbacks to the times in my career when coworkers tried to weaponize HR to push their agenda. Every effort was eventually dismissed by HR, but there is a chilling effect on everyone when you realize that someone at the company is trying to put your job at stake because they didn't like something you said. The next time around, the people targeted are much more hesitant to speak up.

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1. jayd16 ◴[30 Aug 25 01:44 UTC] No.45071220[source]▶
If you're in high leadership, even just being pessimistic can be a massive morale killer. It doesn't mean that going to HR is the right call but I could see how someone would vent that way.
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2. rvba ◴[30 Aug 25 16:59 UTC] No.45076142[source]▶
If you are senior leadership and you find that your org has some people do useless side projects for fun (and tons of money) what delivers no value, your job is to solve this problem by reassigning or firing them.

Facebook VR never needed a new OS in the first place. It needed actual VR.