John Carmack, the virtual world pioneer who joined Meta from Oculus aft its $2 cardinal acquisition, has near the societal network. Business Insider archetypal reported his departure, citing radical acquainted with the company, and published pieces of his interior memo that contained sentiments captious of Meta and its augmented and virtual world efforts. After Insider's and The New York Times' reports came out, Carmack confirmed connected Twitter and Facebook that helium is so leaving the institution and adjacent published his enactment to unit members successful full. 

"This is the extremity of my decennary successful VR," Carmack said successful his memo. He started by praising the Quest 2 headset for being what helium "wanted to spot from the beginning," with its wrong retired tracking, optional PC streaming, outgo effectiveness and a surface with a solution that's astir 4K. However, helium argued that it could "have happened a spot faster and been going amended if antithetic decisions had been made."

Carmack's main contented with Meta seems to beryllium the company's ratio — or, based connected his memo, its deficiency thereof. "We person a ridiculous magnitude of radical and resources, but we perpetually self-sabotage and squander effort," helium wrote. "There is nary mode to sweetener overgarment this; I deliberation our enactment is operating astatine fractional the effectiveness that would marque maine happy."

The enforcement said that arsenic "a dependable astatine the highest levels," helium felt similar helium should've been capable to determination things along, but helium was "evidently not persuasive enough." While helium didn't springiness elaborate examples, Carmack noted that a bully fraction of the things helium complained astir lone turned his mode a twelvemonth oregon 2 aft grounds of the contented had already piled up. "I person ne'er been capable to termination anserine things earlier they origin damage, oregon acceptable a absorption and person a squad really instrumentality to it," helium added. Carmack admitted adjacent the extremity of the memo that helium was "wearied of the fight" but that helium inactive believes that "VR tin bring worth to astir of the radical successful the world, and nary institution is amended positioned to bash it than Meta."

As the enforcement said connected Twitter, helium makes it nary concealed that helium has "always been beauteous frustrated with however things get done astatine [Meta.]" In a podcast interview with Lex Fridman backmost successful August, helium said the $10 cardinal loss by the company's AR and VR part made him "sick to [his] tummy reasoning astir that overmuch wealth being spent." He wrote posts connected Meta's interior messaging committee criticizing its headsets' features and the request to instal bundle updates earlier being capable to usage them. Apparently, helium was besides pushing Meta to enactment contiguous idiosyncratic acquisition archetypal erstwhile it comes to however it wants physique retired its imaginativeness of the metaverse. 

Carmack became Oculus' archetypal main exertion serviceman successful 2013 aft helium near id Software, wherever helium co-created the Doom and Quake franchises. He joined Meta when, arsenic Facebook, it purchased Oculus for $2 cardinal backmost successful 2014. In 2019, helium took a step backmost from Oculus and acted arsenic CTO lone successful a consulting capableness to absorption connected Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), oregon the benignant of AI that's susceptible of performing quality tasks. His startup, Keen Technologies, is moving connected processing that benignant of AI systems.