In its amended complaint filed last year, ZeniMax alleged Carmack copied thousands of documents from a computer at ZeniMax to a USB storage device and that 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.
The accusation led Tony Sammi, one of ZeniMax’s legal representatives, to describe Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus as one of the biggest technology heists ever made during opening statements in the trial.
The current legal drama isn’t the first time the 24-year-old Palmer Luckey has brought controversy to the Oculus brand.
Last September, Luckey disappeared from the internet after being revealed as part of a ‘shitposting’ campaign to skew the contentious US election in favor of Donald Trump.
Luckey co-founded Oculus in 2012 and drew in $2.4 million on crowdfunding site Kickstarter to produce the first development kits.
Carmack, later on, joined the company on August 7, 2013, but did not leave id Software until November 22 that year. At the time, Carmack claimed its decision was because ZeniMax did not want to support developing games for Oculus VR.
The Oculus VR was launched last year and would have set the tone for VR technology not only in games but for other professional applications.