Should Oculus VR be afraid of John Carmack’s former employer?

I love you the verge 🙂

Not sure how they’re try­ing to twist a stan­dard NDA to mean that any ideas, code or pro­mo­tion pro­vid­ed by John Car­ma­ck to Palmer Luck­ey becomes prop­er­ty of Zen­i­max. It does­n’t state this from what I can see in the NDA.

It’s not a celebri­ty endorse­ment con­tract not does it men­tion out­sourc­ing an employ­ee in exchange for a shares of the company.

They’re seri­ous­ly just see­ing green. This is arguable worse than the Scrolls deba­cle. All they’re achiev­ing is mak­ing them­selves look like greedy lit­tle cash grem­lins and dam­ag­ing the image of all their sub­sidiary studios.

It would be a shame if Wolfen­stein: New Order sold poor­ly because peo­ple boy­cotted as a result of Zen­i­max’s lawyers being unable to keep their pants at the sight of money.

The VR buz­zards are begin­ning to circle.

man that back­ground sound­track , just so good , what is the name?

Zen­i­Max is just mak­ing a scary legal exag­ger­a­tion, they want some of that FB mon­ey, and they have a loop­hole to exploit. Palmer Luck­ey came up with the vast major­i­ty of the HMD’s design and func­tion him­self, even had his own lens warp­ing and laten­cy min­i­miz­ing ideas.. But when he met Car­ma­ck, he gave him some sug­ges­tions on how to improve cer­tain things, that’s about it. Basi­cal­ly just com­mon-sense solu­tions to things any­one work­ing on this sort of VR would fig­ure out on their own. Sony, and now Microsoft, are also work­ing on like­ly this same style of HMD, and prob­a­bly use the same sort of tech­nol­o­gy ideas as Ocu­lus, espe­cial­ly since Ocu­lus has been open and shar­ing with everything.

Zen­i­Max was­n’t inter­est­ed in VR back then, Car­ma­ck want­ed to work on VR, and they would­n’t sup­port that, so he quit to work at Ocu­lus. Ocu­lus appar­ent­ly offered Zen­i­Max equi­ty, but they turned it down, when Ocu­lus was too small to care about. And now Ocu­lus is get­ting big, and look­ing like they’ll be suc­cess­ful, and just got bought for $2b, so sud­den­ly seems like a tasti­er target..

I hate Zen­i­max for the BS they’re pulling. Lets do what­ev­er we can to get back at them. A total­ly cor­rupt organization

Excel­lent job on remov­ing all of the infor­ma­tion from this news clip. There’s a law­suit hap­pen­ing. Now we know. Try Google if you’d like to have any actu­al info.

Fuck “Face­book”! This is not their area! Stay away fuck­ers. John car­ma­ck is the man. And gam­ing. Not fuck­ing.. Damn. Fuck em. I was going to buy one of these, but not if its bought by.. Well. This Sucks hard. Too bad a lit­tle kid went for it. Mon­ey Sucks…
Bet­ter to Keep this.. Not mainstream!