kungfl
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1:36:59 · 76K views · Sep 20, 2014
John Carmack's roughly 90-minute keynote at Oculus Connect 2014, covering mobile VR and the Gear VR work, followed by audience questions.
Cited as an example of Carmack's fluent long-form speaking and as an informative talk on VR.
4 comments from Hacker News
Here you go: this video I thought it was a really interesting talk - he's a great speaker. Can really tell how well he knows what he's talking about, lots of information really clearly described and easy to follow.
Absolutely agreed on the mental processing speed and acute awareness of smaller details. Look at this point in the video:- this video He has just opened the floor for questions, and the questioner does not have a microphone and hence audience cannot hear the question. John starts answering the question, but immediately recognizes the situation and then repeats the question for his audience.
For something like a decade (2004~2005 until 2013), Carmack gave a fluent hours-long speech/discussion/brain-dump at QuakeCon. I doubt a few minutes's speech is something he needs "plenty of time to prepare and rehearse" for at this point. Recent examples: 2h50 2013 QuakeCon keynote [LINK] 2h20 2014 SMU talk [LINK] 1h30 2014 Oculus Connect keynote this video
Is it recorded anywhere? I'd love to watch it. Edit: I found it at this video . And the original source points to [LINK] .