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oculus rift now faces a challenge over who legally owns the future of virtual reality i'm chris sigler and this is 90 seconds on the verge vr is making a comeback and oculus is at the center of that revival the former Kickstarter phenom was recently acquired by Facebook for two billion dollars but before all that the oculus rift was a prototype held together by duct tape fatefully it caught the attention of legendary game programmer John Carmack best known for Wolfenstein doom and quake Carmack contributed to the project early on in fact it was in his office in 2012 that we first tried it out but karmic didn't own his own studio that belongs to game publisher ZeniMax when Carmack decided to join oculus in 2013 ZeniMax didn't initially make a fuss but now it says that because Carmack was instrumental to oculus is success it owes ZeniMax money Carmack for his part claims that oculus quote uses zero lines of code that he wrote while under contract to ZeniMax but even if that's true how else may he have helped that leads us to one crucial document in particular back in May 2012 oculus founder Palmer Luckey signed a nondisclosure agreement with ZeniMax nda's are pretty routine but sources tell us that the company is interpreting the contract means edimax sounds part of the oculus idea vias contributions but what is NM x really after here according to The Wall Street Journal the company is seeking compensation which in layman's terms probably means a cash settlement with Facebook there's plenty of that to go around for more on oculus check out the verge coming up next the restaurant industry in the city of New York offer a modest joint proposal to tackle the city's rat prompt problem oh no oh god no it's gross