Unlimited detail never panned out the way it did because those points weren't shown to be compatible with animation, physics, and other transformations unless you also put in some polygons but that would cost alot more processing power. The only purpose I see with unlimited detail is static environments otherwise it really doesn't have any purpose to be in games. What I'm more interested in is getting to see path tracing and fluid dynamics working together as that will get us nearer to the holy grail of awesome graphics and interaction. 

Maybe in the next 10-20 years. :P
One things for sure, PC will have it first as that's where all the major innovation in graphics generally comes from. :)

Point taken.  But I think Tomb Raider, Beyond Two Souls, and the upcoming Metal Gear looked fantastic.  I really think The Last of Us looks worse than God of War 3 and Uncharted 3.  Not a bad game but not a graphical powerhouse. Animation was great, though.

Yes the oculus rift looks pretty awesome but he's not the creator. Seriously, within the last 10 years he hasnt contributed anything special. He's been surpassed by many in graphics engineering.

Then tell me one person who actually has contributed something special? Carmack is an awesome coder in general, 3d especially. There is no way to deny that. Perhaps he made wrong decisions with Rage but still code is always mostly his own and especially good made (I read about a code analysis about Quake(?) where the author explicitely says how nice and well organized the whole code is).

Any dev-team out there would be happy to have a genius like him as a partner.

See, the thing is that I can't really tell you anyone who has contributed more in recent years. That's not to say that there aren't people. Its just that it really takes a lot to get recognized. Obviously there are genious people working at places such as Crytek, Naughty Dog, Santa Monica, etc... The games they make look amazing and that's because they have really talented people in those studios. People who I dare say are more advanced in 3D coding. John Carmack, although smart, is not at the forefront of graphics technology anymore. Other people are more worthy of the attention.