E3 2012: John Carmack Interview

Hooray! Been excited to see this since it was mentioned last night.

Am I in Quest World now??

Edit: Fuck Yeah Science!!!

Will Brad pee his pants?

Ooh, I own the wireless headset that he is using!

Schweet. LOL at the electrical tape!

John Carmack and VR Technology!! Brings me back to the 90's... I dont think Brad got a word in

Johnny C? Nice.

17 minutes of Carmack? 17 minutes of brain training that I'm looking forward to.

Virtual Realty!? Mortgage Simulator 2013! I can't wait.

EDIT: ...it's like listening to a mad scientist describe his doomsday device.

EDIT#2: I love Brad trying to coax him into a soft landing at the end with his "uh huh"s and "yeah"s. Never seen him speak so quickly when he had a chance to.

All the same this is pretty damn interesting.

Are rockets mentioned?

John Carmack! My brain is ready.

Duct tape! That's so great.

They could be brothers

Finally get to see those goggles Carmack has been Tweeting about!

Ohhhhhh, now I understand. Thanks for explaining, John!

Shiiiiit... is this going to be on the test?

My brain... oh god my brain

@evanbower said:

Ohhhhhh, now I understand. Thanks for explaining, John!

Kind of easy huh, just a matter of buffers, pipelines and ghosting. Easy peasy.

Science!

I understand like every third or forth word this guy says, which is nearly enough for me to understand.

That duder is hella intelligent.

Edit: "...deeply, fundamentally cool." I'm so glad his brain is working on video games.

Carmack is such a fantastic nerd, I love him. I also love that this rig is just duct taped together.

Great interview though, I could listen to this man all day.

Wait, was that futurama music I just heard?

God Damn I love listening to that man talk. That was fascinating.

It's great to see that nanotechvisionology is being worked on.

Carmack is so far above us peons.

Edit: Brad looks like he wants Carmack to ask him to be his disciple.

This guy knows his shit

Carmack almost needs 3 extra mouths to get all the info in his head out. An extraordinary man.

Love listing to this guy talk.

This is just going way over my head.

John Carmack is AWESOME!!

lol, quite funny how at the end Brad is having problems even getting a word in =D

So I'm guessing milliseconds of latency is a bad thing?

This is some next level shit.

John Carmack? Awesome.

Also congratz Brad for overcoming your Carmack fear ^^

This is what a Mad Scientist looks and sounds like. God bless him.

I like to think that I'm a smart guy, but when Carmack opens his mouth, my eyes glaze over.

This guy is insane.

@ZombiePie: It all adds up everywhere so less is better.

This was awesome, you guys should see if you can interview him with a little less of a time constraint next time.

<3 Carmack

Great interview though this guy has stuff to say so I can't give any credit to brad :P.

Uuuuhhhh :D I do hope this things gets to the place Carmack says ... imagine playing games with that thing .... altho for the looks of it it would be limited to FPS ....

@zeekthegeek said:

This is what a Mad Scientist looks and sounds like. God bless him.

He's like a real life Dr Frink without the gufravin havin.

Genius on there.

I watched this 3 times..........fucking Carmack

This guy..

Also, why did you cut it...

I have no idea what he is saying but I feel smarter by the second.

I wish Carmack did a podcast

@TeamJersey: He mentions how his work on the gyroscopic systems for his rockets came in handy for working with the sensors.

I don't think Carmack even took the time to breathe during that interview. I don't know as though it was as much an interview as it was a lecture though. A very fun and interesting lecture at that. I really enjoy listening to a developer that is so passionate about what they are doing. I might not understand everything he says but I don't mind listening.

When Brad said held together with duct tape... Well I guess I didn't really think he meant literally.

Info overload! Awesome like always.