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VR legend John Carmack’s departure just made Meta’s metaverse gamble even longer

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VR legend John Carmack’s departure just made Meta’s metaverse gamble even longer

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The departure of John Carmack, a virtual reality pioneer who joined then-Facebook more than eight years ago, highlights the growing pains of a social media giant swinging hard into the metaverse.

Carmack, 52, who has criticized the decision-making and strategy of Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms Inc. META,
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Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s CTO, boldly exposed their problems in an internal post last week.

“It’s been a struggle for me,” wrote Carmack, who called the shift to the immersive world of the metaverse one fraught with bureaucracy, diversity and safety concerns, and a “ridiculous number of people and resources.”

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