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VR guru John Carmack offers his candid opinions on virtual reality apps

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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John Carmack is enough of a rock star in virtual reality circles to fill a room at a conference, even if all he is doing is just staring into a VR headset and criticizing apps.

Carmack, an Oculus technologist who helped design a lot of the technology that’s inside Samsung’s Gear VR, has begun his live reviews of a bunch of games and apps. He’s sitting in a crowded room with hundreds of people at the beginning of the Oculus Connect event at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California.

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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.