John Carmack interview on USA Today talking with the id Software cofounder
about his relatively new role at Oculus Rift (thanks
Gamasutra). Along the way he explains why he left id, saying had id owner
ZeniMax and Oculus been able to work out a deal,
Wolfenstein: The New Order
would have been shown by Oculus at CES, and
DOOM 4 would have had a leg
up on headset support. Here's more:
Another outcome of an Oculus-ZeniMax
deal? Carmack would not have left id in November and would have continued
working at both companies. "I would have been content probably staying there
working with the people and technology that I know and the work we were doing,"
he says.
"But they couldn't come together on that which made me really sad. It was just
unfortunate," Carmack says. "When it became clear that I wasn't going to have
the opportunity to do any work on VR while at id software, I decided to not
renew my contract."