Oculus Founder Hit With Lawsuit

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday May 23, 2015 @08:53AM from the not-so-luckey dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Palmer Luckey, founder of VR headset-maker Oculus, has been sued by a company accusing him of taking their confidential information and passing it off as his own. Total Recall Technologies, based in Hawaii, claims it hired Luckey in 2011 to build a head-mounted display. Part of that employment involved Luckey signing a confidentiality agreement. In August, 2012, Luckey launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Oculus Rift headset, and Facebook bought his company last year for $2 billion. TRT is seeking compensatory and punitive damages (PDF).

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This will get thrown out... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-05-23 15:55 · Score: 2, Interesting

PalmerTech as he exists on the MTBS boards has a demonstrated development cycle on the rift stretching back to 2009.
Arguably the most important developments were made throughout 2010 with the PR1 concept.
This includes documented evidence of all the major design elements that are evident in the rift to date.
Unless he sold them the IP, then they have no leg to stand on.
Nothing like a beat up to hide the facts.
Source: 5 seconds with google.