A jury agreed with ZeniMax that Oculus VR used technology that led to its Rift headset, and the ruling could end up costing Oculus half a billion dollars.
Oculus may be a virtual reality company, but a jury said it owes real money.
That’s the bottom line of a decision handed down in a Texas court Wednesday, in which a jury said Oculus owed $500 million to a little-known company called ZeniMax Media, whose subsidiaries make hit games like Doom, Quake and Fallout .
Palmer Luckey, Oculus’s reclusive co-founder, didn’t respond to a request for comment. But a spokeswoman for Oculus said the company is planning to file an appeal. « The heart of this case was about whether Oculus stole ZeniMax’s trade secrets, and the jury found decisively in our favor, » an Oculus spokeswoman said in a statement.
