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Son of the late John Abrash (d. 1976), and Charlotte "Lottie" Abrash (d. 2000). Grandfather of Melissa, Michael, Michele, Bryan and Kimberly. Brother of Kathy of Windsor, and her late husband Jerry Dupuis (d. 1992) and the late Barbara Abrash.
On March 28, 2014, three days after Facebook announced agreements to purchase the virtual reality headset company, Oculus VR published a statement saying that Michael Abrash had joined their company as Chief Scientist. This reunited him with id Software's John Carmack, who was chief technology officer there at the time. Technical writer
This is when Michael Abrash joined id Software. Together, Michael and John built the Quake engine. After many sleepless nights and way too much Diet Coke, Quake was finished. In 1996 id Software released Quake. PC gaming had truely entered the forefront of 3D gaming.
Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash recently presented at the third Global Grand Challenges Summit, sponsored by the US National Academy of Engineering, the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, in Washington, DC. Today, we’re excited to share his full, unedited talk with the VR community.
Michael Abrash - The former Valve programmer joins Oculus to work together again with John Carmack and recounts the story of being recruited in 1994 by John Carmack to work on the seminal Quake
Mar 28, 2014 · Oculus just announced that Michael Abrash, formerly of Valve, will be joining the company as Chief Scientist. Abrash once worked with the equally respected John Carmack and says that after...
Sep 28, 2018 · Abrash is Oculus's chief science officer, focused on R&D for the VR technology of five, 10, 20 years from now. He helped John Carmack program Quake, and today the two work at Oculus in very...
