Jury hands victory to Facebook and Oculus VR founder in Rift ownership trial
The story of Palmer / Oculus / etc is full of massive RIFTS between partners and partiesI hadn't even heard about the TFT chapter but the more broadly reported one was the saga with Carmack / Palmer / Zenimax eg ->- Zenimax bought ID software for >$100m(1) on June 24, 2009.- Carmack signed up with Zenimax for an earn-out / golden-handcuffs agreement that ended in June of 2013.- Carmack was enthralled with VR.- Carmack found Palmer via an internet forum, reached out to get a rift to try.- Carmack tinkered with the Rift, adding sensors, building calibration, etc. while on the clock / using hardware from zenimax.- Carmack brought a prototype of the Rift working on Doom 3 to E3 with him providing Oculus with their early press.- Zenimax realized the extent to which Carmack was enabling Oculus and worked to negotiate equity with Brendan Iribe.- Oculus sent Zenimax a proposal to discuss a partnership Sept 21, 2012 but never followed up / followed through.- Carmack quit Zenimax the day his contract was up in June 2013, joined Oculus as CTO a few months later and took his 5 best guys with him.- FB bought Oculus March 2014, Zenmix got pissed and sued.From my memory of the early rift I am positive that outside of Palmer it was Carmack's genius that made this viable and Carmack's video lent credibility to the campaign.No major comment here just a wild history, not unusual for breakthrough & derivative technology!(1) https://www.scribd.com/document/274211118/Judge-denies-Faceb...(2) http://www.gamespot.com/articles/zenimax-raised-105-million-...