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TheINQUIRER publishes daily news, reviews on the latest gadgets and devices, and INQdepth articles for tech buffs and hobbyists. John D. Carmack born August 20, 1970 is an American game programmer and virtual reality engineer. He cofounded id Software. Carmack was the lead programmer of the. I/51TXW1X6E4L._AC_SX430_.jpg' alt='Doom 3 Bfg Edition Description Of Business' title='Doom 3 Bfg Edition Description Of Business' />Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. Big superhero events are always marketed with promises of permanent status quo changes and shocking developments. The problem is, nobody believes that anymore. John Carmack Wikipedia. John Carmack. Born1. August 2. 0, 1. 97. Roeland Park, Kansas, United States. Residence. Heath, Texas. Alma mater. University of Missouri, Kansas City dropped outOccupation. CTO, Oculus VR, Inc. Founder, Armadillo Aerospace. Known for. Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3. D, Doom, Quake, Rage. SpousesKatherine Anna Kang m. Children. 2John D. Carmack born August 2. American game programmer and virtual realityengineer. He co founded id Software. Carmack was the lead programmer of the id video games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3. D, Doom, Quake, Rage and their sequels. Carmack is best known for his innovations in 3. D graphics, such as his Carmacks Reverse algorithm for shadow volumes. In August 2. 01. 3, Carmack took the position of CTO at Oculus VR. BiographyeditEarly lifeeditCarmack, son of local television news reporter Stan Carmack, grew up in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area where he became interested in computers at an early age. He attended Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas and Raytown South High School in nearby Raytown, Missouri. Carmack was introduced to video games with the 1. Space Invaders in the arcades during a summer vacation as a child. The 1. 98. 0 maze chase arcade game Pac Man also left a strong impression on him. He cited Shigeru Miyamoto as the game developer he most admired. As reported in David Kushners Masters of Doom, when Carmack was 1. Apple II computers. To gain entry to the building, Carmack concocted a sticky substance of thermite mixed with Vaseline that melted through the windows. However, an overweight accomplice struggled to get through the hole, and opened the window, setting off a silent alarm and alerting police. Carmack was arrested, and sent for psychiatric evaluation the report mentions no empathy for other human beings and describes Carmack as a brain on legs. Carmack was then sentenced to a year in a juvenile home. He attended the University of MissouriKansas City for two semesters before withdrawing to work as a freelance programmer. Softdisk, a computer company in Shreveport, Louisiana, hired Carmack to work on Softdisk G S an Apple IIGS publication, introducing him to John Romero and other future key members of id Software such as Adrian Carmack not related. Later, this team would be placed by Softdisk in charge of a new, but short lived, bi monthly game subscription product called Gamers Edge for the IBM PC DOS platform. In 1. 99. 0, while still at Softdisk, Carmack, Romero, and others created the first of the Commander Keen games, a series that was published by Apogee Software, under the shareware distribution model, from 1. Afterwards, Carmack left Softdisk to co found id Software. Carmack has pioneered or popularized the use of many techniques in computer graphics, including adaptive tile refresh for Commander Keen, raycasting for Hovertank 3 D, Catacomb 3 D, and Wolfenstein 3 D, binary space partitioning which Doom became the first game to use, surface caching which he invented for Quake, Carmacks Reverse formally known as z fail stencil shadows which he devised for Doom 3, and Mega. Texture technology, first used in Enemy Territory Quake Wars. Carmacks engines have also been licensed for use in other influential first person shooters such as Half Life, Call of Duty and Medal of Honor. In 2. 00. 7, when Carmack was on vacation with his wife, he ended up playing some games on his cellphone, and decided he was going to make a good mobile game. On August 7, 2. Carmack joined Oculus VR as their CTO. On November 2. 2, 2. Software to work full time at Oculus VR. Carmacks reason for leaving was because ids parent company Zeni. Max Media didnt want to support Oculus Rift. Carmacks role at both companies later became central to a Zeni. Max lawsuit against Oculus parent company Facebook, claiming that Oculus stole Zeni. Maxs virtual reality intellectual property. The trial jury absolved Carmack of liability, though Oculus and other corporate officers were held liable for trademark, copyright, and contract violations. In February 2. 01. Carmack sued Zeni. Max, claiming the company had refused to pay him the remaining 2. Software. 1. 2Armadillo AerospaceeditAround 2. Carmack became interested in rocketry, a hobby of his youth. Reviewing how much money he was spending on customizing Ferraris,citation needed Carmack realized he could do significant work in rocketry and aerospace. He began by giving financial support to a few local amateur groups before starting Armadillo Aerospace. Carmack funded the company out of his own pocket, for something north of a million dollars a year. Carmack taught himself aerospace engineering and was the lead engineer of the company. The company made steady progress toward their goals of suborbital space flight and eventual orbital vehicles. In October 2. 00. Armadillo Aerospace competed in a NASA contest known as the Lunar Lander Challenge, winning first place in the Level 1 competition along with 3. In September 2. 00. Level 2 and were awarded 5. The company went into hibernation mode in 2. Open source softwareeditCarmack is a well known advocate of open source software, and has repeatedly voiced his opposition to software patents, which he equates to mugging someone. He has also contributed to open source projects, such as starting the initial port of the X Window System to Mac OS X Server and working to improve the Open. GL drivers for Linux through the Utah GLX project. Carmack released the source code for Wolfenstein 3. D in 1. 99. 5 and the Doom source code in 1. When the source code to Quake was leaked and circulated among the Quake community underground in 1. Software used it to port Quake to Linux, and subsequently sent the patches to Carmack. Instead of pursuing legal action, id Software, at Carmacks behest, used the patches as the foundation for a company sanctioned Linux port. Software has since publicly released the source code to Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3 and lastly Doom 3 including, later, the BFG Edition, all under the GNU General Public License GPL. The Doom source code was also re released under the GPL in 1. The id Tech 4 engine, more commonly known as the Doom 3 engine, has also been released as open source under the GPL. The source code for Hovertank 3. D and Catacomb 3. D as well as Carmacks earlier Catacomb was released in June 2. Flat Rock Software with Carmacks blessing. On the other hand, Carmack has several times over the years voiced a skeptical opinion about Linux as a gaming platform 2. Descargar Matlab Gratis Para Windows 7 32 Bits. Linux might be the biggest problem for the success of the Steam Machine. Carmack contributes to charities and gaming communities. Some of the recipients of Carmacks charitable contributions include his former high school, promoters of open source software, opponents of software patents, and game enthusiasts. In 1. 99. 7, he gave away one of his Ferraris a 3. Dennis Fong, the winner of the Quake tournament Red Annihilation. Personal life and philosophyeditCarmack met his wife Katherine Anna Kang at the 1. Quake. Con when she visited ids offices. As a bet, Kang challenged Carmack to sponsor the first All Female Quake Tournament if she was able to produce a significant number of participants. Carmack and Kang married on January 1, 2. Hawaii. Steve Jobs requested that they postpone the ceremony so Carmack could attend the Mac. World Expo on January 5, 2. Carmack and Kang declined and made a video instead. Carmack and Kang had a son in 2. Carmack has a blog last updated in 2. Twitter account, and also occasionally posts comments to Slashdot. As a game developer, Carmack differs from many of his contemporaries by avoiding commitment to a final release date for any game he is developing. Instead, when asked for a release date on a new title, Carmack will usually reply that the game will be released when its done.