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ZeniMax Media Sues Samsung Over Gear VR Headset

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 17 2017, @02:42PM   
from the those-who-can't-do,-sue dept.

takyon writes:

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

Related: Samsung to Open VR Movie Studio in New York
Goodbye Cardboard: Google to Create VR Headset to Compete with Samsung's Gear VR
Samsung Gear VR Adds a Tracked Controller

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• going back to college going back to college (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:55PM (6 children)

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:55PM (#511164) Journal

  I'm going to major in patent trolling. It looks more lucrative than doctoring or lawyering, and it's a lot less work.

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• Re:going back to college Re:going back to college (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:55PM (5 children)

  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:55PM (#511166) Journal

  Move to Texas.

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  • Re:going back to college Re:going back to college (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:59PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:59PM (#511168)

    You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.

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    • Re:going back to college Re:going back to college (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:03PM (1 child)

      by DannyB (5839) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:03PM (#511173) Journal

      You seem confident that Texas isn't Hell. Or perhaps hell for people who lived and died in other states.

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      • Re:going back to college (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @09:07PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @09:07PM (#511387)

        No worries. Hell [wikipedia.org] is in Michigan.

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  • Re:going back to college Re:going back to college (Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:05PM (1 child)

    by captain normal (2205) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:05PM (#511175)

    Surely not for the BBQ: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/why-do-patent-trolls-go-texas-its-not-bbq [eff.org]

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    • Re:going back to college (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:23PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:23PM (#511187)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_(2016_TV_series) [wikipedia.org]

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