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oculis owes half a billion dollars to ZeniMax after losing in court a jury needed just two and a half days to deliver its verdict in the ZeniMax versus oculus trial and Palmer is not so lucky now terrible the case started in 2014 when ZeniMax accused oculus of misappropriating trade secrets the actual trial began in mid-january of 2017 and took three weeks to litigate ZeniMax lawyers insisted the whole thing was a planned heist with oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey relying on in co-founder John Carmack programming expertise which would then make the foundation of oculus headset technology property of ZeniMax since ZeniMax owns it oculus on the other hand says this is sour grapes and the lawsuit is just a product of jealousy at oculus this success stating quote they're jealous they're angry they're embarrassed unquote seriously you guys this trial had more drama than all of my Nana's favorite soap operas combined in the end the jury agreed with ZeniMax awarding them five hundred million bucks of course oculus plans to appeal the verdict but considering Facebook owns oculus now and Facebook put up a three point five billion dollar profit last quarter I think all parties here are going to be just fine check out cnet.com for more I'm ashley Esqueda be good humans