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ZeniMax Files to Halt Oculus’ Use of Rift & Gear!

kevinw729
Honored Visionary
According to a report by Reuters, ZeniMax
filed papers on Thursday, at the same court where the early 2017 trial
was held, which seek an injunction that would prevent distribution of
the VR code that was found to infringe on ZeniMax’s copyright. According
to the filing, ZeniMax’s proposed injunction would include core
software that makes the Oculus ecosystem work, including the company’s
PC SDK for Rift and Mobile SDK for Gear VR

So when we raised this during the Jury results on this forum certain posters said this was never going to happen!

Well now it looks like the issue is not just going to pull in CV1 but also GearVR!
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959
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RorschachPhoeni
Trustee
That will not happen.
Excuse my bad english. I speak to you through the google translator. 😛

kevinw729
Honored Visionary
I tend to agree with you, but the bad publicity that it engenders seems more of the point than the actual likelihood that a Texas Judge will agree to the suspension of all CV1 and GearVR sales till the ruling.

For me, it's the way that the media are reporting "...when Facebook makes a statement" as if they are treating it as if Oculus VR has ceased to be a party in this? And the zero comments from OVR (CA) - I treat Carmack and OVR Texas as a different entity of late, actually willing to give an opinion than hide in the shadows!
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

Anonymous
Not applicable
My goodness I guess this crap is never going to end... unbelievable.

kevinw729
Honored Visionary
Yep, that was the danger of not settling out of court when they knew that there was an "element" of truth to the claim!
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

kevinw729
Honored Visionary

Atmos73 said:

...FB could be humble and hold its hands up and take the hit and have this all passed into the history books...


We are talking about the same FB here? 😉
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

kevinw729
Honored Visionary
Yeah,I know MarkZ is not happy at the moment with his "problem child"!
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

kevink808
Superstar
That's it!  Boycott everything Zenimax but Fallout!
Rift-S, Quest 128GB, GO 64GB.

kevinw729
Honored Visionary
I wonder if Zenimax will come out of this as toxic as OVR seems to have become?
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

Anonymous
Not applicable
They're just trying to get the relevant parties to pay out the cash rather than continue with their appeal process because Zenimax know that they can't afford to go on a long drawn out appeal process for 4 or 5 years. If they're successful with this injunction (and I doubt that this is likely to happen imo) Facebook and the individuals involved will just fork out the collective $500m. Like I said in the original thread this is just posturing by Zenimax in an effort to get a quick settlement from Facebook, Luckey and Iribe.