Facebook and ZeniMax settle legal battle over Oculus VR and stolen secrets
ZeniMax Media and Facebook today settled a long-running legal dispute over the creation of the Oculus Rift VR headset, which ZeniMax claimed was the result of stolen trade secrets (including code and research) shared by ex-ZeniMax employees who had been hired by Oculus. Among those hires was John Carmack, the well-known co-founder of id Software (which ZeniMax owns) who joined Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe, and the rest of the Oculus VR team in 2013 before Facebook bought the VR company for $2 billion. Variety and CNBC reported news of the settlement. Oculus uses zero lines of code that I wrote while under contract to Zenimax. — John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) May 1, 2014 ZeniMax pursued litigation against Facebook in 2014 and at one… Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18138129/facebook-zenimax-oculus-vr-settlement-announced from Blogger http://leadhackerdigital.blogspot.com/2018/12/facebook-and-zenimax-settle-legal.html The post Facebook and ZeniM...