John Carmack, CTO of Oculus, at Oculus Connect 5.
John Carmack, CTO of Oculus, at Oculus Connect 5.
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John Carmack moves to ‘consulting CTO’ role at Oculus

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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John Carmack is stepping down from his full-time position as chief technology officer at Facebook’s Oculus virtual reality division. Carmack said in a Facebook post that he will be a “consulting CTO” going forward.

Carmack started at Oculus in 2013 as CTO and helped popularize the movement to bring consumer VR back to the masses with modern technology. He started at Facebook after the social media company acquired Oculus for $2 billion in 2014. And he weathered a lawsuit between ZeniMax, which bought his old company id Software, and Facebook over the ownership of the VR technology that Carmack worked on with Oculus cofounder Palmer Luckey.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.