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How do you profit from virtual reality without the need for customers or products? You sue! Fresh from winning a $500 million judgment against Facebook/Oculus, ZeniMax Media is now suing Samsung:
Carmack, whose company id Software was acquired by ZeniMax in 2009, was one of the driving forces behind the Gear VR. While the headset was released by Samsung, it's described as "powered by Oculus," with heavy software optimizations developed by Carmack. But the lawsuit alleges that Carmack owed much of his success at Oculus to software he developed as part of a team at ZeniMax.
Among other things, the Texas court filing claims that Carmack secretly brought Oculus (and former ZeniMax) employee Matt Hooper into id Software's offices to develop an "attack plan" for mobile VR, which Oculus would later take to Samsung. The Samsung Gear VR was also built on some of the same code as the Oculus Rift, which was the subject of ZeniMax's earlier lawsuit.
Also at Ars Technica and PC Gamer. Zenimax v Samsung lawsuit. Gear VR.
Previously: Zenimax Sues Oculus on Trade Secrets
Mark Zuckerberg Will Testify in Oculus VR Trade Secrets Trial
Facebook/Oculus Ordered to pay $500 Million to ZeniMax
John Carmack Sues ZeniMax for $22.5 Million
Founder of Oculus VR, Palmer Luckey, Departs Facebook
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:54PM (1 child)
I'm happy the industry is destroying itself legally because its too lame.
The one thing. THE ONE THING I wanted 3d was modded Minecraft and the marketplace in its current iteration is to lame to provide it. So flush it and lets try again in a decade.
Logically instead of shitty startups getting traded like poker chips the whole "3D thing" should just be a pair of glasses from a 3-d graphics card mfgr. No special software. No new engines. Maybe a new driver OK. No new games (well, new games are OK but not crappy 3d ones). No gratuitous yet useless 3d effects as seen in 3d movies. Just these glasses and that new nvidia driver automagically renders 3d. Thats all. The marketplace is going to have to get flushed repeatedly to wash away the scammers and the useless middlemen and the startups.
Imagine if shitbirds like that were trying to sell hard drives or cases, how badly they'd F it all up. Of course you can't keep a good cockroach down so flushing the scammers out of 3-d will probably just screw up power supplies or memory SIMMs. I can't wait to see the new screwups.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday May 17 2017, @06:55PM
There are lame aspects such as the hype. Though, one thing is for sure, we finally have affordable, working VR. I played with the Vive, Oculus and the Microsoft hololens (technically not VR but AR though the concepts are the same). Needless to say the Vive is amazing.
There is potential for the tech but right now we have everyone cumming themselves thinking about money instead of the technical aspects.