John Carmack: Mobile can deliver a VR killer app

John Carmack talked to his faithful followers about the technical edge of virtual reality and the technical improvements on the way for the Samsung Gear VR mobile virtual reality headset.

While other Oculus and Facebook speakers have pushed the high-end Oculus Rift headset on the PC, the chief technology officer of Oculus has focused much of his energy on mobile VR solutions, which he believes can hit wider markets at lower prices — and still deliver a great VR experience. Carmack spoke onstage today at the Oculus Connect event in San Jose, California. His talk wasn’t full of predictions of the VR future, as Oculus chief scientist Mike Abrash articulate yesterday. But Carmack’s largely unscripted talk still held a lot of people rapt at the developer event, which drew 2,500 people across the three days.