One of the most striking news this week was the announcement of the purchase by Facebook developer of virtual reality helmet Oculus VR. Themselves participants in the transaction are optimistic about the future of virtual reality technology.
Helmet Development is also in good hands - Oculus VR previously failed to attract the chief engineer of the gaming industry veteran John Carmack, but now the company has passed Michael Abrash, who takes over as head of the research division.
Founder of Oculus VR Palmer Lucky, Michael Abrash and John Carmack at QuakeCon 2012
To work at Oculus VR Abrash left Valve, where he was also involved in the development of virtual reality technology. Interest and resources allow Facebook Oculus implement virtual reality in all its glory. Also, he does not hide that he is happy to work again with Carmack - experts in the past have worked together under the banner of id Software.
Michael Abrash sufficiently conspicuous figure in the gaming industry. He participated in the development of games Quake and Doom, became one of the authors of the concept of Larrabee, which later evolved into the Intel computing accelerators and produced several books on writing efficient code and assembler programming graphics. Related Products :
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