Joe Rogan Experience #1342 - John Carmack

John Carmack is a computer programmer, video game developer and engineer. He co-founded id Software and was the lead programmer of its video games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Rage and their sequels. Currently he is the CTO at Oculus.

Joe RoganhostJohn CarmackguestJamie Vernonhost

Aug 29, 20192h 36mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: August 29, 2019
Duration: 2h 36m
Channel: The Joe Rogan Experience
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

John Carmack is a computer programmer, video game developer and engineer. He co-founded id Software and was the lead programmer of its video games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Rage and their sequels. Currently he is the CTO at Oculus.

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Joe Rogan
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John Carmack
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Jamie Vernon
host

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and John Carmack, Joe Rogan Experience #1342 - John Carmack explores john Carmack on VR’s Future, AI, Rockets, and Relentless Engineering Obsession John Carmack joins Joe Rogan to discuss the evolution of virtual reality, from early Oculus prototypes to today’s standalone Quest headset and his long‑term vision of VR as a replacement for most screen-based computing. They dive into technical and design challenges around immersion, motion sickness, haptics, smell, tracking, and how VR could transform gaming, training, media, and everyday work. Carmack also explores broader frontiers—neural interfaces like Neuralink, the timeline and implications of artificial general intelligence, the physical limits of Moore’s law, and commercial spaceflight. Woven through is his personal philosophy on obsessive work, open‑sourcing DOOM and Quake, modifying Ferraris, amateur rocketry, martial arts, and how disciplined engineering can still “build the future.”

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