Zenimax wins settlement from Facebook over stolen VR code

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That's settled then.
Back in 2017, ZeniMax Media — the parent company of Bethesda — filed a lawsuit against Oculus, owned by Facebook, for stealing trade secrets and infringing on its copyrights. While under NDA with ZeniMax, both former Oculus CEO Palmer Luckey and current Oculus CTO John Carmack worked on VR headset prototypes. When they both left their ZeniMax agreements, they took that work with them. Over the last year, ZeniMax has been involved in lawsuits with Oculus as a company, and John Carmack separately over a different matter. According a report by Gizmodo, a lawyer for ZeniMax called it "one of the biggest technology heists ever."

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