The law teams are heating up and the debate between ZeniMax and Oculus is kicking up a gear. With both sides ready to swing at each other, we're in for a rocky ride.
Claiming Oculus destroyed evidence proving John Carmack exited Bethesda with confidencial research to further the Oculus Rift project, Zenimax - the parent company to Bethesda - is suing the now Facebook-owned VR firm.
It's a case that's been brought up within the industry for quite some time now, but with hearings now happening during a week-long trial in Texas, we're starting to hear the defence of either side. Zenimax states how the company was hard at work putting millions of dollars into the research and development of the tools necessary to get VR off the ground - research Carmack conducted within the company before jumping ship to aid the start-up credited with accelerating interested in the medium with the Oculus Rift.
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CEO of Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg - is scheduled to testify later today in the lawsuit firth established in May 2014. ZeniMax firmly believe Oculus is building, and selling, the Rift hardware based on years of their own research. Samsung are also expected to play a part in the trial due to their involvement with the Samsung GearVR headset - which runs Oculus software and was created in partnership with the group before the release of the consumer Rift headset.
It's been a lengthy process that could have staggering effects on the tech industry as a whole. Palmer Luckey's start-up seemed innocent enough at first, but the snowball effect and Facebook's billion-dollar deal could be more sinister than it seemed.
