Oculus VR CTO John Carmack has claimed that using Oculus Rift virtual reality is"like getting religion on contact."
In an interview with Fortune, Carmack was asked how the VR tech of today is different from VR tech of the past, to which he replied that the company's technologies are pushing VR forward in a big way.
"In the past there were smaller niche companies, research companies, or military projects, and none of them got it right," Carmack commented. "Everybody was doing small incremental improvements on the previous formfactor and design, which just wasn't right. And they didn't notice that you can make it something that the mass market could enjoy."
"Oculus really started popularizing a new approach using cellphone screen technology, a wide field of view, and super-low-latency sensor tracking," he added. "It's not crappy stuff that doesn't work and makes everybody sick. When you experience Oculus technology, it's like getting religion on contact. People that try it walk out a believer."
Oculus was acquired by Facebook earlier this year for a whopping $2 billion and the company has since signed a partnership with Samsung for a mobile iteration of Oculus Rift for PC known as Gear VR – which can be purchased now for $200.
