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Former Oculus CTO Calls Meta's 30% VR Dev Fee "wasteful churn" in Face of Subsidizing Individual Apps

Summary by Road to VR
Legendary programmer and former Oculus CTO John Carmack doesn’t think Meta’s developer incentive structure is healthy for the Horizon Store ecosystem, calling it “wasteful churn.” The News While Carmack departed Meta in 2022, concluding his “decade in VR,” the one-time Oculus CTO has never been one to mince words when it comes to virtual reality. In a recent X post, Carmack lays out what appears to be a pretty clear inequity: why does Meta fund …
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Road to VR broke the news in on Friday, March 13, 2026.
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