Summary Game maker ZeniMax sued Oculus in May 2014.
(Daily Dunya) - A U.S. jury in Texas on Wednesday ordered the Facebook-owned company Oculus to pay $500 million compensation after finding they unlawfully used virtual reality technology of video game developer ZeniMax.
The company must also pay $200 million for non-disclosure agreement violation, $50 million for copyright infringement and another $50 million for false designation. The jury decided that Oculus didn’t steal trade secrets, as alleged by ZeniMax.
The Oculus spokesperson said in a statement: “The heart of this case was about whether Oculus stole ZeniMax’s trade secrets, and the jury found decisively in our favor”.
Game maker ZeniMax sued Oculus in May 2014, just months after the virtual reality (VR) startup was acquired by Facebook. The parent company of ID Software, ZeniMax argued that Oculus had improperly used its computer code to launch its own VR headset.
Facebook enjoyed a strong end to the year, announcing a 51 percent jump in its fourth-quarter revenue. That growth was driven by mobile advertising business, which accounted for 84 percent of income. The company’s revenue grew to $8.81 billion, and quarterly profit more than doubled to $3.57 billion.
ZeniMax had alleged that video game designer John Carmack developed core parts of the Rift’s technology while working at a ZeniMax subsidiary.
