John Carmack, a well-known technology engineer known for his work on virtual reality as well as the development of classic games such as Doom and Quik, has decided to step down from his CEO consulting role at Meta Corporation, where he held a role managing Metaverse technology development.
Carmack’s work with Meta, formerly Facebook, began when the company acquired Oculus in 2013, where he was the chief project officer for the Oculus Rift project.
In 2019, his role in the company was reduced and he stepped down from the position of chief engineer at Oculus to move into an advisory role with the company on artificial intelligence.
Around that time, Carmack said he would start working in the field of general artificial intelligence, but he did not fully clarify his role and in which company, and it turned out that in his new company he meant Keen Technologies and not Meta, while giving Mark Zuckerberg’s company only 20% of his time as a consultant .
According to for a post The resignation that Carmack wrote internally among Meta employees appears to be unhappy with the way things are currently going at the company, reportedly writing that things have been a “struggle” for him, even though “I have a position at the highest levels here” and that he ” It looks like I should be able to change things,” except that it “is clearly not convincing enough.”
It seems that Carmack eventually decided to resign from his position, and it was accepted by the Meta management, which is another step of change in the areas of Metaverse that the company has been placing the greatest focus on in the past few years, in hopes of achieving future steps.
In the past weeks, Mita has announced that it has decided to reduce spending on Metaverse projects and the technology for developing augmented and virtual reality glasses.
Also at the same time, the company decided to forcibly reduce the number of its workers, and the largest percentage of people who opened the exit door to them were from the Metaverse business division, despite the company’s constant assurances that it continues to work on developing technology that it sees as the inevitable future.