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"id Software co-founder John Carmack has officially stepped down. The Doom and Quake lead programmer resigned from the game development company to focus his effort on hardware, according to id Software studio director Tim Willits.   &amp;quot;John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio,&amp;quot; Willits told IGN.  &amp;quot;John&amp;#039;s work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete, and his departure will not affect any current projects.&amp;quot;  He added: &amp;quot;We are fortunate to have a brilliant group of programmers at id who worked with John and will carry on id&amp;#039;s tradition of making great games with cutting-edge technology. As colleagues of John for many years, we wish him well.&amp;quot; In August, Carmack joined virtual reality headset maker Oculus as chief technology officer. Watch a video of the Oculus Rift virtual headset below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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