Oculus denies that John Carmack Tech VR flew to his former employer

If the word out last week was that technical director John Carmack is accused of VR oculus officer from his former employer of stealing intellectual property for use in their new concert date, the emerging Facebook subsidiary issue a summary declaration: "it's unfortunate, but when this type of transaction, people come, from the wood with ridiculous and absurd allegations." We want strong"oculus and their investors to defend the extent. The company in the development of this statement today and on the claims of ZeniMax.

"We are disappointed, but not surprised by the actions of ZeniMax and we prove that all their requests are wrong," the statement from oculus. The company then establishes a list of rebuttals claims by ZeniMax. Some of the highlights:

There is no line code by ZeniMax or its technology in the oculus Produkten.ZeniMax not to claims against the oculus IP or technology, ZeniMax was never any intellectual property or technology, oculus, and only after the announcement of the agreement, the Facebook ZeniMax has now made these allegations through his lawyers.

In addition, some interesting details about the history of the ZeniMax work statements oculus outs with Palmer Luckey on VR in a few years. Claims for example oculus "John definitively left ZeniMax was the main reasons in August 2013, that Zenimax Johns work on the Board of Directors and stopped investing in high score Board on the society as a whole has." " Is interesting, although Carmack of ID software (a Development Studio that he co-founded, now owned by ZeniMax Media) shared descent in August 2013, oculus and ZeniMax danced to the arrangement. It was not until November of last year, that so-called Carmack ID software oculus links-fully joined full time.

People, the history of the oculus from the outset followed realizes that a version of Doom 3 BFG promised, which was set, which shipped with the original kickstart oculus rift. This premium was replaced eventually in cans and through the valve steam game store credit. Today according to a statement by oculus, "" canceled ZeniMax support VR for Doom 3 BFG as oculus rejected claim ZeniMax participation in oculus claims. ""

The last resort, certain "oculus was not so much interest in the oculus, wanted drawn ZeniMax support for a product related to rift ZeniMax ZeniMax." " Yes, arguments then money.

A last piece of that oculus notes online (available here) is the complete oculus SDK and "ZeniMax never"stolen"code or technology" has identified in this source. This looks like a job for the Internet! People do you see here code that stands out? Don't hesitate to let us know!

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