John Carmack has announced his resignation as executive advisor to Meta VR, citing inefficiencies and infighting at Meta

On December 17th, legendary programmer John Carmack, former Meta CTO, announced in a post on social media that he was resigning as Executive Advisor to Meta VR, ending his 10-year VR career. John Carmack was the first to express his approval of Quest 2, but he was deeply offended when he saw the VR headset sold with a 5% GPU utilization rate. In addition, John Carmack clearly expressed his frustration with the inefficiencies of Meta's operations and the severity of the struggles within the company. John Carmack said: "Meta has a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but it's constantly destroying and wasting itself, and the team is only running at half the efficiency I'm happy with. Working at Meta has been a struggle for me, and although I have a voice at the top of the company, I think I can push things forward, but I'm clearly not persuasive enough. I'm tired of all this and I'm going to focus on running my own startup." BlockBeats Note: John Carmack, co-founder of id Software and co-developer with John Romero of the world's first 3D shooter, Wolfenstein 3D, In 2012, he put all the open source Software from id Software Studio on Github, which achieved great success in the gaming community. He joined Oculus in 2013 and became Meta CTO after Meta acquired Oculus. Announced his resignation as CTO in November 2019 to serve only as an "advisory CTO" but still have some say in product development.