Oculus judged to have breached copyright with the Rift – PressFire

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(PressFire.en): the Case between Zenimax and Oculus have reached a preliminary endpoint, and it is not cheap for the VR company.

Zenimax is grumpy, partly because the programmer John Carmack showed off a version of “Doom 3″ that could run in VR on the early Oculus Rift prototype at E3 2012.

This was while he still worked at Id Software, and the lawsuit believes that he developed and used the software that belonged to Zenimax to help the Oculus.

According to Zenimax should Carmack have stolen with their contents on a computer when he stuck to work with the Oculus, in addition to that he came back for more in the aftermath.

A piece of potentially important evidence in the case is also that Zenimax believes that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey signed a confidentiality agreement around a specific type of software that they owned, and that Oculus has used in its VR technology.

Zenimax believes that Oculus has thus built VR headset, the Rift based on years of work and millions of kroner in investment from Zenimax itself.

This gives nto the right in Texas Zenimax succeed in, and pålegger the Oculus and the bosses where to pay smeight incredible 4,1 billion in reparations.

Palmer Luckey have to pay 411 million, while previous Oculus ceo Brendan Iribe must punge out the entire 1.2 billion – this for having misled with the release of Rift by using the technology developed by Zenimax.

Oculus is in addition ordered to pay Zenimax in excess of 2.4 billion for violating pthis is the privacy notice and a break pcopyright.

Zenimax had initially asked for damages totalling 33 billion.