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 “Locationbased 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 plugin instead of dropin, 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 lowpowered 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 controllerfree 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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