We restreamed a direct feed of the Facebook Connect presentation offered by John Carmack at 5:30PM PT on Sept. 16, 2020.

John Carmack, the Consulting CTO for Facebook Reality Labs, gives his yearly technical breakdown on new Oculus news - including Oculus Quest 2 and future VR headset requirements- in this unscripted live keynote.

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00:00:00 John Carmack starts talking
00:03:03 “Global lockdown and pandemic..."
00:04:35 “Frankly I’m kind of embarrassed by our social story here…”
00:05:12 “Location-based VR has probably taken a terminal hit…”
00:06:00 "People are ok with making a sweaty mess in their own personal headset..”
00:12:07 “Reality...just seamlessly flows into the simulation...”
00:14:06 “Quest 2 is better, faster, cheaper, and we’re making a ton more of them..."
00:14:54 “"Resolution is 3664x1920...”
00:16:33 “You could start doing some real work with it..."
00:18:34 “Best display that we’ve ever had..."
00:31:29 “Still haven’t announced a full wireless connection system for Link...we should have some kind of an Air Link”
00:32:47 Qualcomm XR2
00:59:12 “Whatever the next headset is we’ve got to get higher resolution on the tracking cameras.”
01:00:45 “We did look at this for the latter days of Gear VR, doing this kind of two part plug-in instead of drop-in, and there may still be some useful things to go there.”
01:00:59 “There are still some things for which Go is the best headset”
01:02:04 “Putting on the headset should be as seamless as answering a phone call…”
1:02:31 “Having things converged now on our VR platforms is an enormous relief..."
1:03:12 “This low-powered gaming focused device which wasn’t really what anybody was aiming for at the beginning…”
1:05:17 “Getting the more inexpensive systems out on VR is critical..."
1:08:47 “Maybe you have a controller-free SKU where the controllers are more expensive but they never lose tracking…”
1:12:06 “It is all about the headset learning to understand the world around it…”
1:18:41 “Our push to be a general purpose computing system…”
1:19:40 “We need more Android applications…”
1:21:40 “I think I’m about done here…"

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