![]() ![]() As he told me in the book, referencing a line from the cult sci-fi movie, Real Geniu s, “it’s a moral imperative that we must create this.”Īfter reading that line, the founder of Oculus, Palmer Luckey, took the missive to heart. ![]() From his earliest forays into 3-D gaming in the early 1990s, Carmack was explicitly trying to usher in the age of VR. Wired ran a story about how the book inspired the launch of the virtual reality company, Oculus. (That’s an entertaining and heartbreaking Hollywood story that I plan to tell down the line.)Ĭoolest of all, Masters of Doom compelled others to make companies of their own. ![]() Two years ago, there was IMHO a fairly amazing TV pilot shot based on it that was never picked up. The book went through several printings and has been translated into multiple languages (I’m particularly fond of the Spanish cover, as is Romero ). ![]()
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