Carmack couldn’t work on VR at id Software, so he left

Doom 4 with a virtual-reality headset ‘would have been a huge win’

As much as I want John Carmack to do good work at Oculus VR, it was sad to see him depart from id Software. In an interview with , he elaborated on why he chose to leave instead of working at multiple companies simultaneously (because that’s an option for him).

“I would have been content probably staying there [at id] working with the people and technology that I know and the work we were doing,” Carmack said. He had wanted parent company ZeniMax Media and Oculus VR to establish a deal in which games like Wolfenstein: The New Order and Doom 4 would be playable with the Oculus Rift headset.

“When it became clear that I wasn’t going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at id Software, I decided to not renew my contract,” he explained. And that’s how an era ended.

[USA Today]