Oculus picks up Halo art director to head '1st-party content team'

Oculus VR has picked up another industry veteran: Halo 4 senior art director Kenneth Scott. He's heading up their first-party content team.

Steve Watts

May 14, 2014 3:00 PM

Oculus VR has picked up another industry veteran, this time from the Halo series. Halo 4 senior art director Kenneth Scott has joined Oculus, in order to build first-party content for the device.

Oculus announced the hire on Twitter (via IGN), saying, "Ken is building our 1st-party content team!" Scott left 343 Industries to be with his family, after his wife (programmer Corrinne Yu) took a job at Naughty Dog.

The company has picked up former talent from id Software and Valve, so it's turning into quite the who's-who of established developers. Scott's influence will probably still be seen in the next Halo game.

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Oculus VR has picked up another industry veteran: Halo 4 senior art director Kenneth Scott. He's heading up their first-party content team.
- wunderbred
  
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  May 14, 2014 3:43 PM
  
  Is Carmack working on first-party content or is he devoting his time to the Oculus tech itself?
  - vitek r
    
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    May 14, 2014 4:16 PM
    
    carmack has never been a content creator
    - Gwyndion
      
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      May 14, 2014 4:36 PM
      
      Well... working on a new engine to run a game for Oculus would kind of be part of a content creating team... more so than if he was purely working on the hardware/drivers side of the company.
      
      Judging by the kind of guy Carmack is, I'd imagine he'd be involved in all parts of that kind of development. Basically whatever interests him. Considering the knowledge and experience he has it would seem completely insane if he was not involved in some aspects of whatever 1st party software they might be coming up with. How could he not be?
  - Drakhai
    
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    May 14, 2014 4:47 PM
    
    I thought I had heard Carmack was making a VR comic book reader. I suppose that could count as first party content. Bloody brilliant idea.
    - cptincognito
      
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      May 14, 2014 4:58 PM
      
      That's fucking awesome. Source? Reading comics on the screen sucks because the eye movement across the layout is an integral part of the format. Fuck, that's such a good idea.
      - Drakhai
        
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        May 14, 2014 5:03 PM
        
        https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/statuses/459738973137432577
    - daggot
      
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      May 14, 2014 5:49 PM
      
      The tweet linked here says comic book shop, not reader.
      - Drakhai
        
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        May 14, 2014 5:58 PM
        
        I have a music shop on my phone called winamp. Like captincognito points out, it's the perfect interface for that medium. Not taking that idea to its conclusion and merely offering something like a VR storefront would be very surprising to me, to say the least.
        
        FuryVII
        
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        May 14, 2014 7:51 PM
        
        Still you are guessing at best here.
        
        Drakhai
        
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        May 14, 2014 8:21 PM
        
        Hell, if he's doing it, I am.
        
        Drakhai
        
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        May 14, 2014 8:25 PM
        
        *not doing it.
    - Turd Ferguson
      
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      May 14, 2014 8:31 PM
      
      I think that's a pet project.
- cptincognito
  
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  May 14, 2014 4:24 PM
  
  Oculus is now the id we deserve
  - Gwyndion
    
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    May 14, 2014 4:37 PM
    
    That's kind of what I feel now too. Whatever comes out of Oculus in the next few years, is probably going to generate the kind of excitement we have been missing from id software for years now.
- shirif
  
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  May 14, 2014 4:43 PM
  
  They need to Halo composer as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  - Turd Ferguson
    
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    May 14, 2014 8:31 PM
    
    Someone needs him.
- the archvile
  
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  May 14, 2014 6:13 PM
  
  Kenneth Scott was also at Id Software during at least the Quake 3 and Doom 3 days.
  - wunderbred
    
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    May 14, 2014 6:52 PM
    
    Fucking rad.
  - Serpico74
    
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    May 14, 2014 7:26 PM
    
    Yeah, he was one of the top Q2 skinners. Got picked up by Ion Storm and then id
  - Turd Ferguson
    
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    May 14, 2014 8:30 PM
    
    That's why that name sounds familiar, awesome.
  - Rauol Duke
    
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    May 15, 2014 5:51 AM
    
    So he consistently works on the worst games in a series. They were all pretty for their time though.
    - Snipergen
      
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      May 15, 2014 5:59 AM
      
      That's his fucking job to make it pretty.
      - Rauol Duke
        
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        May 15, 2014 6:09 AM
        
        That's my point. He was a bright spot, the games themselves were poop.
        
        Pneum0
        
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        May 15, 2014 6:37 AM
        
        Your opinion is poop. Those are my 2 favorite games.
        
        Rauol Duke
        
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        May 15, 2014 7:00 AM
        
        Haha you like poop.
        
        Snipergen
        
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        May 15, 2014 6:49 AM
        
        Quake 3 is poop? o_O
        
        Rauol Duke
        
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        May 15, 2014 6:59 AM
        
        It sucked all the dicks. It was the worst Quake and I'm counting 4 in that list. There were a million good games from the engine, but Q3 blew.
        
        abrasion
        
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        May 15, 2014 7:00 AM
        
        I like you.
        
        Rauol Duke
        
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        May 15, 2014 7:01 AM
        
        Oh fuck, Nevermind. I'm clearly wrong. My bad.
        
        abrasion
        
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        May 15, 2014 7:02 AM
        
        Actually, I've never played 4 and 2 is pretty fucking mediocre too.
        
        Deathlove
        
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        May 15, 2014 7:05 AM
        
        lie down with the bad-opinion dogs, dog
        
        abrasion
        
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        May 15, 2014 7:07 AM
        
        The good Quakes start with Quake 1 and finish with Quake 1.
        
        ErneX
        
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        May 15, 2014 7:04 AM
        
        That's controversial.
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  May 14, 2014 7:49 PM
  
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- johnny rotten
  
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  May 14, 2014 8:49 PM
  
  Kenneth Scott is an amazing artist, but not too sure where Occulus is hoping to go with this. Unless they plan on doing some real cool tech demos...
  - Turd Ferguson
    
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    May 15, 2014 5:35 AM
    
    Full games.
    - ErneX
      
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      May 15, 2014 6:59 AM
      
      The Metaverse.