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Why yes, he does a part of the work on various projects and may lead on a few things I think (not sure about right now but he was doing the video playback thing before), but there are PMs and their teams that handle the majority of the work for most projects, so I'm just saying we should be fair to them. Folks like Andy Melim who I believe was the lead for the Quest/Rift S Touch tracking updated and leads the Insight team. Or Dean Beeler who led ASW.

>deliberately gimping things for the sake of marketing or cost cutting. The latter is the problem and it's a Facebook executive problem.
In that sense, yes Carmack can have an influence there, but I think we need to remember that Facebook is just another megacorp that works in their own best interests, which sometimes benefits us and sometimes doesn't, but mostly does, yes even the cost cutting and perceive anbandonning VR. The entire reason Oculus existed was to make VR succeed, not to make just PC VR succeed which it would've naturally if Oculus had not chosen to invest in PC. And that's why it's arguably beneficial in the long term for even people who supported them under the impression that they would support PC VR with all their might.