ZeniMax: Palmer Luckey knowingly lied about creating VR, used stolen code & resources

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Parts of this seem to conflict with reality, but man are these some hefty allegations.


ZeniMax: Palmer Luckey knowingly lied about creating VR, used stolen code & resources - NeoGAF

This required a separate thread because holy crud: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...-of-theft.aspx

The complaint, which alleges a variety of transgressions, now includes Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe and id Software co-founder John Carmack by name.
 The suit also directly names Oculus parent company Facebook, with amended charges against the VR company that further detail a key source of conflict: misappropriated Zenimax property. Specifically, the filing now spells out theft allegations against the id Software co-founder and Oculus’ current chief technology officer John Carmack.
 “Instead of complying with his contract, during his last days at ZeniMax, he copied thousands of documents from a computer at ZeniMax to a USB storage device,” the amended filing (below) alleges. “He never returned those files or all copies of them after his employment with ZeniMax was terminated. In addition, after Carmack's employment with ZeniMax was terminated, he returned to ZeniMax's premises to take a customized tool for developing VR Technology belonging to ZeniMax that itself is part of ZeniMax's VR technology.”
 Further, the suit increases its allegations that Palmer Luckey is not the inventor of contemporary virtual reality. In the original filing, Zenimax states that "Luckey increasingly held himself out to the media and the public as the visionary developer of the Rift’s VR Technology, which had actually been developed by ZeniMax without Luckey’s involvement."
 The similar passage from the amended complaint is far more damning, suggesting that Iribe knowingly spread a tall tale about Luckey creating VR in his parents' garage.  "Oculus, at Iribe’s direction, disseminated to the press the false and fanciful story that Luckey was the brilliant inventor of VR technology who had developed that technology in his parents’ garage," the new document reads. "In fact, that story was utterly and completely false: Luckey lacked the training, expertise, resources, or know-how to create commercially viable VR technology, his computer programming skills were rudimentary, and he relied on ZeniMax's computer program code and games to demonstrate the prototype Rift. Nevertheless, this fraudulent tale was frequently reported in the media as fact. Luckey increasingly and falsely held himself out to the media and the public as the visionary developer of the Rift’s VR Technology, which had actually been developed by ZeniMax without any substantial contribution from Luckey."

 

Lots more at the link.
 

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Crosspost from the "other" Thread.

Originally Posted by wanderingprostheyltite
 
 

 
 This part on Iribe doesn't sound so hot either if true (from same article):

 

Thats battleship though: development of the Oculus Rift began well before Carmack was even remotely involved. Quite a lot of that is well documented at mtbs3d. The prototype Rift has been sent for demo to other members of mtbs3d back then (again before Carmack was involved) as well. The name and Logo of oculus existed already as well. (Danny Unger of cloudhead games did the first Logo if I remember right)
 A lot of later oculus Staff were people from the Community there.
 Sure things got more complicated as John demoed it at E3 (and wouldnt have taken off in the same way, yes) and they started a legal Business, but discrediting Palmer in that way is factual wrong.