Oculus VR’s John Carmack Speaks On Facebook Deal… Via Twitter

Despite being the company’s chief technology officer and devout programmer, John Carmack has quickly become the face of Oculus VR, the startup behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and new addition to the Facebook mothership. If you’ve been wondering what his perspective is on recent events, you only have to go as far as his Twitter timeline to find out.

Today, Carmack took the time to fire out a few short thoughts via Twitter now that “everyone has had some to digest the FB deal”. Essentially, he’s happy to read anything opponents of the acquisition have to say, as long as it’s “coherent”. He also believes the presence of Facebook will be “positive”:

(2/3) Much of the ranting has been emotional or tribal, but I am interested in reading coherent viewpoints about objective outcomes. — John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) March 28, 2014

(3/3) What are the hazards? What should be done to guard against them? What are the tests for failure? Blog and I'll read. — John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) March 28, 2014

That said, he has no problem with the company getting involved if things start going awry:

I would expect Facebook to not exert any overt control over Oculus unless Oculus fumbles badly a few times, at which point they SHOULD. — John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) March 28, 2014

Carmack also mentions that Facebook will help Oculus — and VR technology in general — avoid “several embarrassing scaling crisis [sic]”.

Of course, you’d hardly expect Carmack to be crapping on the deal, but he’s a pretty forthright guy and I’m sure he only has the technology’s best interests at heart. Hopefully Facebook does too.