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Oculus VR founder, and designer of the Rift, Palmer Luckey is leaving Facebook but it's not clear whether the departure is voluntary or not. Facebook spoke to VR and told the site that tomorrow, Friday, is Palmer's last day with the company. “Palmer will be dearly missed. Palmer’s legacy extends far beyond Oculus. His inventive spirit helped kickstart the modern [...]
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In the first big Virtual Reality lawsuit, the jury has ordered Facebook to pay Zenimax $500 million. Not because Oculus' CTO John Carmack stole intellectual property, but because Palmer Luckey violated his non-disclosure agreement with Zenimax. Zenimax was seeking $4 billion in damages. Oculus sent the following comment to GamesBeat following the verdict: “The heart of this case was about [...]
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Way back in 2014, ZeniMax filed a lawsuit against Oculus, claiming the Facebook-owned VR company stole VR-related technologies and today it heads to trial. What's at stake here? ZeniMax wants $2 billion in compensation, the same price Facebook paid for Oculus. If ZeniMax's allegation is true it means that Palmer Luckey did not invent the Rift, that most of the [...]
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The gloves are off in Zenimax's latest amendment to its lawsuit against Oculus VR. You may the case from back in 2014, when Zenimax alleged that Oculus had taken "proprietary technology" and/or "know-how" that John Carmack had developed while working at Zenimax. At the time, Carmack had denied such accusations with the following tweet. No work I have ever [...]
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