In the ongoing legal battle between Facebook owned Oculus VR and id Software parent company, Zenimax, the VR firm has denied all allegations that it breached Zenimax copyright and non-disclosure agreements in creating the Rift headset. It has also called Zenimax?s tactics misleading, unjust and lacking in good faith.
Oculus VR and Zenimax have had a closer involvement than many people might realise. Along with poaching John Carmack to come and work on the Rift headset several years ago, Palmer Luckey actually signed an NDA with Zenimax before forming Oculus and there was even a consideration that the media company might purchase an equity stake in Oculus in its early days.
Zenimax?s claim suggests that without its input, no Rift would have been created. It wants a jury judged trial and plans to go after Oculus for quite a sum. However Oculus and its parent, Facebook, both deny that in creating the Rift anything of Zenimax?s was taken, denying any claims that it is owed any compensation of any kind.
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