Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Facebook is sued in the billion – accused of stealing vr-technology – Computer Sweden

the Vr company Oculus was acquired by Facebook nearly three years ago. The bet is on the vr is seen as an important part of the forward strategy for Facebook and Oculus Rift was the first vr headset on the market earlier in the year.

But now sued Facebook in two billion dollars, close to 18 billion, of the company Zenimax, which owns the game developing company Id Software. A sum as large as the Facebook paid for Oculus.

Zenimax claims Id Software’s early innovations in vr has been used in the Oculus Rift.

At the intersection of the battle, says Oculus cto John Carmack, who previously worked at Id Software and is considered to be the brain behind the spelsuccéer like Doom and Quake.

During a period in 2013, he worked in parallel on both Id Software and Oculus, but passed over completely to the Oculus at the end of the year.

Himself, he stated in an interview with the US Today in 2014 that he made the decision to change companies because he had not had the opportunity to work with vr at Id Software, writes BBC News.

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But from Zenimax’s side argued that he took with him technology that is protected by immateriellarätt to the Oculus at the same time as he was working at Id Software. In the documents the company submitted to the court in writing to the company that he secretly, and illegally, copied thousands of documents and brought them over to a usb memory before he went over to the Oculus.

Zenimax lawyer karaktiserar it as “one of the biggest teknikkupperna ever”.

But John Carmacks lawyers suggest that his contract expressly allowed him to work with other companies that did not compete with Zenimax and that the trade secrets which the company claim that he has taken with him in fact, were the fruits of that he’s worked with companies like Oculus and that they therefore do not belong to Zenimax.

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Facebook defended itself by Zenimax had their chance to invest in vr, but did not, which led to the Oculus sought investment elsewhere. It was only when Facebook bought the company that Zenimax showed any interest in vr.

today, Facebook’s ceo Mark Zuckerberg to appear in a court in Dallas to defend his company. The hearing is expected to take all day.

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