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

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524 points OlympicMarmoto | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 16:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.322s | source
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tanvach ◴[29 Aug 25 17:51 UTC] No.45067273[source]▶
Was at Oculus post acquisition and can say that the whole XROS was an annoyance and distraction the core technology teams didn’t need. There were so many issues with multiple tech stacks that needed fixing first.

Mind you, this XROS idea came after Oculus reorged into FB proper. It felt to me like there were FB teams (or individuals) that wanted get on the ARVR train. Carmack was absolutely right, and after the reorg his influence slowly waned for the worse.

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1. ezoe ◴[31 Aug 25 13:46 UTC] No.45083118[source]▶
It looks to me Meta was a victim of ivory tower researchers who just want to experiment on their non-practical theoretical research on company's expense.

It has some value a huge company funds these research, as long as it doesn't affect the practical real for-profit projects.