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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
11 Apr 2017 Acquired Oculus
“I think one of his greatest contributions was the algorithms to do the shading of shadows so that things look appropriately far away and appropriately lit as you approach them or turn corners.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 11 Apr 2017
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Oculus
Transcript context
…Quake, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D. You know, all of the first generation of first person shooter PC games. Yeah. I think one of his greatest contributions was the algorithms to do the shading of shadows so that things look appropriately far away and appropriately lit as you approach them or turn corners. Or things that we take incredibly for granted today but were actually required a lot of complexity. Yeah. I mean, I remember, gosh, I was probably in middle school when those games were coming out and like, they were so far advanced versus anything else on the PC at the time, PC or like the NES. So, Carmack is on the forums and he’s on the forums because he is also interested in VR and he kind of shares Palmer’s dream that playing video games in VR is going to be a totally new paradigm and really, really compelling. And actually, Carmack’s dream, id had release Doom 3 recently. He wanted to port Doom 3 into VR and so he sees all the progress that Palmer is making and he reaches out to him.…
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